Maria Theresia Scherer

Painting by Maria Theresia Scherer in the parish church of St. Leonhard , Ingenbohl

Maria Theresia Scherer (born October 31, 1825 in Meggen in the canton of Lucerne ; † June 16, 1888 in Ingenbohl ) was a Swiss nun and the first superior general of the Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross . She was beatified in Rome on October 29, 1995 .

Life

Anna Maria Katharina Scherer attended elementary school in Meggen, where she was born. Then she did an apprenticeship in household work and health services at the Citizens Hospital in Lucerne . After meeting the Capuchin Father Theodosius Florentini , Anna Maria Scherer joined the order of the Menzing Sisters in 1845 . She passed the teaching examination as an autodidact and worked as a teacher in Galgenen , Baar and Oberägeri . In 1852 she became matron in the Kreuzspital in Chur . In 1856 Sr. Maria Theresia Scherer joined the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross and later became its Superior General.

literature

• Inge Sprenger Viol: A life against misery and injustice: the way and work of Sister Maria Theresia Scherer . Herder-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, ISBN 3-451-23566-8 .
• Werner Vogt : Maria Theresia Scherer, a Christian who gives courage . Kanisius-Verlag, Freiburg (Switzerland) 1995, ISBN 3-85764-434-6 .
• Victor Conzemius: Scherer, Maria Theresia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Catherine Bosshart-Pfluger:  Scherer, Maria Theresia. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 692 ( digitized version ).
• Walter Troxler:  SCHERER, Maria Theresia. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 16, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4 , Sp. 1410-1412.
• Anna Richli : Maria Theresia Scherer. In: Schweizer Frauen der Tat 1659–1827. Zurich 1924.

Web links

• Literature by and about Maria Theresia Scherer in the catalog of the German National Library