Maria Theresia Haze

Maria Theresia Haze (born February 27, 1782 in Liège ; † January 7, 1876 ​​there ) was a Belgian religious and the first Superior General of the Daughters of the Holy Cross . She was beatified in Rome on 1991 .

Life

Like her biological sister Ferdinanda, who was two years her senior, Johanna Haze wanted to be a religious sister. They taught poor girls sewing and knitting and cared for the sick. When the sisters' free school was relocated to a new building in 1832, four classes could be run, and two other like-minded women joined them. Her confessor was the chaplain Johann Wilhelm Habets, rector and confessor of the Carmelite convent in Liège. The bishop commissioned Habets to write the rule and confirmed it in 1833. On September 8, 1833, the celebration of the foundation of the cooperative and the dressing of the religious took place. The three co-sisters at the foundation died in 1834 and 1835, while the superior Maria Theresa reached a great age.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Haze, Maria Theresia. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 617-619.
• Monika Gollnick, Rüdiger Gollnick: Aspel House: Irmgard von Aspel, Maria Theresia Haze: 2 women, united in love with the Lower Rhine , Butzon and Bercker Verlag, Kevelaer 1985, ISBN 3-7666-9424-3 .
• Else Budnowski (1900–2002): Maria Theresia Haze. Founder of the Cooperative of the Daughters of the Holy Cross . Provincial house of the Cooperative of the Daughters of the Holy Cross, Aspeln near Rees 1953.
• Alfons Väth: Under the banner of the cross: The venerable mother Maria Theresia Haze and her foundation: The Cooperative of the Daughters of the Holy Cross , L. Schwann Verlag, Düsseldorf 1922.