Carolina Gerhardinger is born 20 June 1797 at Stadtamhof in Bavaria.
Her father was a skillful ship builder. At first she teaches and
then becomes the foundress of the congregation of the "Poor
Teaching Sisters of Our Lady." She dies 9 May 1879 in the adjacent
convent of St. James, the mother house of her order. |
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9 May - BLESSED TERESA GERHARDINGER, sister
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She works as a teacher in her native city until 1833 when the bishop
of Regensburg, who later prepares her for religious life, encourages
her to found a congregation which would be in keeping with the times
for the education of young women, modeled after the Canonesses of
Notre Dame. Carolina thus founds the "poor teachers,"
whose mother-house originally was at Neunburg, and were approved
by king Louis I March 22 1834. In religion Carolina took the name
Teresa of Jesus and remained for fifty years, until her death, superior
general of the Congregation. In 1843 the mother house is transferred
to the ex-monastery of the Poor Clares of St. James in Munich, Bavaria.
17 November 1985 John Paul II proclaims her Blessed!
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