Salesia Strickler

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Salesia Strickler , (* February 16, 1834 as Josefa Genoveva Katharina Strickler in Menzingen ; † May 17, 1898 ibid) was a Swiss Catholic religious and for more than 30 years General Superior of the Sisters of the Holy Cross .

Life

She was the daughter of the farmer Andreas Strickler and his wife Genoveva, née Stocker.

In 1844, Bernarda Heimgartner founded the Order of the Sisters Teaching of the Holy Cross and opened a school in Menzig, which Josefa Strickler also attended. From 1846 to 1849 Strickler finished her school days in Rappoltsweiler in Alsace, became a candidate in Rhäzüns and joined the order in Zizers unmarried. In 1851 she completed the state teacher examination and chose Sister Salesia as her religious name. In 1855 the young nun was then superior of the teaching institute (later name Stella Maris ) in Rorschach . In 1863 she was elected to succeed Bernarda Heimgartner as mother superior of the convent. In the following year, she reorganized the candidate school in Menzingen and enlarged it with a daughter boarding school, as the teachers feel too unprepared due to the one-year teacher training course. After the religious teaching activity was intensely discussed between liberal and religious forces in 1876, the daughter boarding school and the candidate school were finally institutionally separated in 1877. Sister Salesia argued on the side of the opponents of secularization , but took part in the drafting of a legally compliant school statute for the order.

As Superior General from 1863 until her death in 1898, she campaigned for the further expansion of the Order of the Teaching Sisters and founded numerous branches in Europe, which later enabled the Order to expand throughout the world. On Salesia's behalf, in addition to school education, practice-oriented courses were also given, teaching sisters not only went to the central locations, but also to more remote mountain villages and farms. As early as 1883, the Menzing sisters were sent to South Africa as mission teachers.

Honors

The former Salesianum Zug , an institution of the order, was named after her .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Renato Morosoli: Strickler, Salesia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 2, 2012 , accessed February 25, 2019 .
  2. ^ Claudia Crotti: Teachers: Early professionalization. Professional history of primary school teachers in Switzerland in the 19th century . European Science Publishing House, Bern, 2005. S. Digitalisat
  3. ^ Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 453
personal data
SURNAME Strickler, Salesia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strickler, Josefa Genoveva Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss religious and general superior
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Menzingen ZG
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1898
Place of death Menzingen ZG