Mary of the Divine Heart

Countess Maria Droste zu Vischering ( Full name: Maria Anna Theresia Antonia Johanna Franziska Huberta Droste Vischering ), religious name Mary of the Divine Heart, ( born September 8, 1863 in Münster ( Westphalia ), † June 8, 1899 in Porto, Portugal) was nun in the Congregation of the sisters of the good Shepherd. She is worshiped in the Catholic Church as Blessed.

Life

From the Count Droste Vischering from Westphalia to arise, she joined in 1888 the convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Münster. The most important task of these sisters was in distress girls and young women to help. Especially poor and homeless women and help-seeking prostitutes were included in the houses of the Congregation. 1891 Maria finished their novitiate in the monastery and put down the religious vows. As a result, they then looked after their own girls group home. Three years later she moved to Porto, Portugal, and became superior of the monastery. There she took women who lived on the street, thieves and prostitutes in the monastery. Your noble origin she was useful in their concern to obtain the necessary funds from wealthy nobles and factory owners.

Sr. Maria Droste zu Vischering is now known primarily as a mystic. In their visions the consecration of the whole world goes to the heart of Jesus on June 11, 1899 by Pope Leo XIII. back. However Sr. Mary experienced the feast day not because she died on the eve of the age of 35 years. She is buried in the church of the convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Ermesinde at Porto. Sr. Mary was on November 1, 1975 by Pope Paul VI. beatified. Your feast day is June 8.