St. Anna Sisters (Lucerne)
The St. Anna Sisters are a Roman Catholic religious order with a motherhouse in Lucerne (Switzerland). The community was founded in 1909 by the Regens of the Diocese of Lucerne, Wilhelm Meyer, and is dedicated to care and nursing (especially for women who have recently given birth). The congregation was initially started as an association to circumvent the prohibition of midwifery services for women religious.
In Switzerland, the association ran around 40 hospital wards and clinics in Lugano , Freiburg and Lucerne (sold to the Hirslanden private hospital group in 2005 ). From 1915 St. Anna sisters worked at Ferdinand Sauerbruch's newly founded private clinic in Zurich. The order has spread to India since 1927 , where around 700 sisters live today. In 1990 the sisters founded a branch in Tanzania . Since 2000 the community has been divided into the 2 generalates Switzerland and India, which form a federation.
literature
- Markus Lischer: Saint Anne sisters. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Community of the St. Anna Sisters, Lucerne (ed.), Cosmopolitan, far-sighted and close to people. 100 years of fellowship of the St Anna sisters 1909-2009. Lucerne 2009
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Individual evidence
- ^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Hans Rudolf Berndorff : That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, p. 202 f.
Coordinates: 47 ° 3 '26.4 " N , 8 ° 19' 32.9" E ; CH1903: six hundred and sixty-seven thousand four hundred and three / 212194