Mother Joseph Pariseau
Joseph of the Sacred Heart ( in the United States Joseph of the Sacred Heart or Mother Joseph called ), a native Esther Pariseau ( Parizeau ), ( * April 16, 1823 in Saint -Martin (Québec ) Laval (Québec ), Canada; † January 19, 1902 in Vancouver, Washington (State ), United States) was a nun of the Sœurs de la charité de la Providence ( Congregation Sororum a Providentia SP) and architect. Mother Joseph established the first branch of the Congregation in the United States in 1856.
Life
Esther Pariseau, the daughter of a wheelwright, entered the Congregation founded a few months before the Blessed Émilie Gamelin on December 26, 1843. It was the habit on July 21, 1845 and was given the religious name of Joseph du Sacré - Cœur. As a result, she learned the nursing and vestments embroidery. She was technically very skilled by teaching her father and in all female skills and was therefore selected, a branch in the diocese Nesqually, in the U.S. state of Washington to build. With some other sisters went to this remote area. They built with his own hands the convent and a school.
In 1866 Joseph Sr. laid resign as mother superior of this house and devoted himself as an economist of the financing of branches in Western Canada and the northwestern United States. From the 1870s she managed the construction of many hospitals (15 ), orphanages, schools (9) and educational institutions in the North West of the USA and Canada. Through these tireless construction they gained great notoriety. In 1894 she was appointed Provincial Council (Council of the sister province).
By the end of her life she was busy with the construction of an orphanage. 1902 Joseph Sr. died of a brain tumor; her last words urged her fellow sister to constant care for the poor on: "Everything that concerns the poor is always our affair! " Sr. Joseph was on the St. James Acres Catholic Cemetery in Vancouver (WA) buried. Since 28 May 2007, the cemetery bears her name. Besides her grave stone is there a statue: Mother Joseph praying at her side hand tools.
Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart and Sr. Bernarda Morin have significantly contributed to the global spread of the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of the (divine) providence.
Importance
Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart is one of the first architects in the Pacific Northwest.
The Congress of the United States honored the work of Mother Joseph in 1980 with a bronze statue by Felix de Weldon (sculptor of the United States Marine Corps War Memorial ) in the National Statuary Hall in the Capitol (Washington). Mother Joseph is one of five Catholic missionaries of the U.S. who will be honored there. It is there shown kneeling with folded hands, on the base are building tools.
The city of Vancouver ( Washington) they honored with a statue; there applies the built 1868 Mother Joseph's Providence Academy, as it is called today as " remarkable work": At the time the school was connected with the orphanage is the largest brick building erected north of San Francisco.
The National Cowgirl Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has devoted her since 1981, a statue in the Hall of Fame.
In the state of Washington her birthday is celebrated as Mother Joseph Day.