Mary Frances Schervier

Franziska shear Four ( born January 3, 1819 in Aachen, † December 14, 1876 in Aachen ) was the founder of the Poor Sisters of St. Francis.

Life

Franziska shear Four was the daughter of the needle manufacturer Johann Heinrich shear Four (1784-1845) and his wife Marie Louise Victoire Migeon ( 1781-1832 ). My godfather was the Emperor Franz I of Austria.

It belonged ( as her friends Clara Fey, Pauline von Mallinckrodt - both as students of Luise Hensel - and Josephine Koch) to the pioneering figures in the charitable and social movement of the 19th century and distinguished himself from his youth in piety and great charities from. Their example was St. Francis of Assisi. On October 3, 1845 began with four like-minded girls a common monastic life, in which they put a lot of emphasis in Nursing ( cholera and smallpox patient ). Just six years later shear Viers association was elevated to a monastic community by Cardinal John of scourge of Cologne under the name of the poor Sisters of Saint Francis.

At the age of 58 years Franziska shear Four died on 14 December 1876 in their hometown. On September 14 In 1896 she was formally transferred to the chapel of the new parent company of the poor sisters in Aachen.

On April 28, 1974 Franziska shear Four was under a solemn liturgy in St. Peter's Basilica by Pope Paul VI. beatified. In 2008, the canonization process was begun.

Since 2010 she is the patron instead of the end of 2009 resolved parishes Holy Cross, St. Adalbert, St. Andrew, St. Foillan, St. Mary and St. Peter newly founded parish Franziska von Aachen.