Pauline de Nicolay

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Pauline de Nicolay (born February 16, 1811 in Paris , † June 9, 1868 in Jerusalem ) was a religious of the Catholic Church. The beatification process has started.

Life

Paulina de Nicolay was born in France to a noble family . Her parents were Theodor and Augustine of Nevis. The family has eight children, Pauline de Nicolay was the second oldest of the sisters.

Due to the mystical experiences that Pauline de Nicolay had at a young age, she was handed over to the sister community of Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus for education in 1824 and then subsequently joined the community on September 8, 1832. She was sent to Montet ( Switzerland ) for further formation and accepted into the novitiate . Two more of Pauline von Nicolay's sisters joined the community of sisters Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

From 1836 to 1847 she worked as an educator and teacher in Turin and due to the revolutions of 1848/1849 she moved to Bordeaux , where she took over the management of the institute established there. Because of a serious eye disease, she left the order in 1849 and returned to her family. Despite considerable expenditure, the condition of the eyes continued to deteriorate. In 1853 she made a vow to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land , accompanied by her youngest sister, Joanna. In November 1854 she had an audience with Pope Pius IX. Due to the outbreak of the Crimean War , it was not possible to continue to the Holy Land and in the meantime she was accepted into the Third Order of the Franciscans and took her vows on August 15, 1855 ( Assumption of Mary ) in the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi . On January 8, 1856, she is said to have been stigmatized in Loreto and then to have worn the wounds of Christ for eight years.

On May 2, 1858, Pauline de Nicolay traveled to the Holy Land, where - after stopping in Naples , Messina , Malta and Egypt - she arrived in Jaffa on May 14 . She visited the most important sites and subsequently lived until her death in a grotto-like building near the church of St. Cleopas, which was rebuilt at the beginning of the 20th century . She bought the church ruins in 1861 with her share of the family fortune for around 50,000 gold francs (franchi d'oro) and gave it to the Franciscans. At the place where Pauline de Nicolay lived, the Serafinian College of the Franciscans was later built, which is now a pilgrims' hospice. Pauline de Nicolay died on June 9th, 1868 in the pilgrim house Casa Nova in Jerusalem and was buried on June 10th on Mount Zion in the Christian cemetery. On July 8, 1872, the remains were transferred to Emmaus and buried in the hospice. On September 20, 1902, the remains were transferred to the newly built Church of the Breaking of Bread ( Fractio Panis , English : Breaking Bread ) and a tomb made of light gray marble was placed.

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  1. ↑ Gottfried Egger: Pauline de Nicolay and the sanctuary Emmaus-Qubeibe , p. 154.
  2. ↑ Gottfried Egger: Pauline de Nicolay and the sanctuary Emmaus-Qubeibe , p. 106.
  3. ↑ Gottfried Egger: Pauline de Nicolay and the sanctuary Emmaus-Qubeibe , p. 107.
  4. ↑ Gottfried Egger: Pauline de Nicolay and the sanctuary Emmaus-Qubeibe , p. 108.
  5. ↑ Gottfried Egger: Pauline de Nicolay and the sanctuary Emmaus-Qubeibe , p. 109 f.
  6. ↑ Gottfried Egger: Pauline de Nicolay and the sanctuary Emmaus-Qubeibe , p. 110 f.
  7. ↑ Gottfried Egger: Pauline de Nicolay and the Sanctuary Emmaus-Qubeibe , p. 151: Official purchase price 32,000 gold francs, with baksheesh around 50,000 gold francs.
  8. ↑ Gottfried Egger: Pauline de Nicolay and the sanctuary Emmaus-Qubeibe , pp. 106, 111, 155.
  9. ↑ Pope Benedict XV. elevated the church to a minor basilica on March 17, 1920.
  10. ↑ Gottfried Egger: Pauline de Nicolay and the sanctuary Emmaus-Qubeibe , pp. 106, 153.
personal data
SURNAME Nicolay, Pauline de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Religious of the Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1868
Place of death Jerusalem