Regina Protmann

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Regina Protmann

Regina Protmann (* 1552 in Braunsberg , (Polish: Braniewo ); † January 18, 1613 ibid) is the founder of the Katharinese sisters and blessed of the Catholic Church .

Life

Regina Protmann grew up sheltered in a respected bourgeois family. Her father was a businessman. Her youth was shaped by the religious clashes of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation and not least by the plague , which repeatedly plagued northern Poland during this time . She received an education. In 1571, at the age of 19, she left her family and formed a religious community with two other young women. Their principles were devotion to God in total poverty and asceticism and the willingness to serve one's neighbor, which they put into practice by nursing the sick and by bringing up young girls. This was a novelty at the time when religious women , according to the Council of Trent exclusively in exam were allowed to stay. The community received spiritual support and support from the Jesuits . Soon more young women joined the community, attracted by the Braunsberg sisters' attitude to life. On March 18, 1583, after twelve years of testing, the congregation was recognized by Bishop Martin Kromer . Protmann chose the patroness of the parish church of Braunsberg , St. Catherine of Alexandria, as the patroness of the congregation . This is how the name Catherine Sisters came about (in full: Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Virgin and Martyr Catherine of Alexandria ). Subsidiaries were founded in Wormditt (1586), Heilsberg (1586/87) and Rössel (1593/97). However, the spin-offs were limited to the Prince Diocese of Warmia , which was under Polish sovereignty and formed a Catholic island in Prussia . Finally, in 1602, after Peter Tilicki had revised its rules, the order received papal recognition. The community had to move several times during Regina Protmann's lifetime due to lack of space. When the founder of the order died on January 18, 1613, the community consisted of 35 sisters in the four convents.

Regina Protmann and her Sisters of St. Catherine are considered to be the trailblazers for many subsequent nursing orders . On June 13, 1999, she was beatified by Pope John Paul II .

Today the order comprises about 900 sisters and is active in Germany , Lithuania , Brazil , Italy , Togo , Benin , Cameroon , Russia and Belarus in addition to the area of ​​origin in today's Poland . In Germany he runs several hospitals and nursing homes for the elderly .

In the church of the monastery on Ermlandweg in Münster-Kinderhaus are relics kept by Regina Protmann, ebenson in the Basilica of St. Catherine in her hometown Braniewo.

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  1. ^ A b c d e Westfälische Nachrichten : Regina Protmann: a courageous woman - Sisters of St. Catherine celebrate the 400th anniversary of the death of their foundress with Bishop Felix Glenn. Münster / surroundings, Münster children's home, Marion Fenner, 7 January 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Protmann, Regina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Prussian founder of the order of the Catherine Sisters
DATE OF BIRTH 1552
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunsberg (now Poland)
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1613
Place of death Braunsberg (now Poland)