Regina Protmann
Regina Protmann (* 1552 in Brown Mountain, (Polish Braniewo ); † January 18, 1613 same place ) is the founder of the Sisters of St. Catherine and Blesseds of the Catholic Church.
Life
Regina Protmann grew up protected in a respectable middle-class family. Her father was a merchant. Her youth was marked by the struggle of faith of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, and not least by the plague, which repeatedly struck northern Poland at this time. She received an education. 1571 she left at the age of 19 years, her family, and together with two other young women a religious community. Its principles were devotion to God in utter poverty and asceticism and the willingness to serve the neighbor what they transpose through nursing and education of young girls. This was at that time a novelty, since nuns were allowed to stay exclusively in written examination in accordance with the Council of Trent. Spiritual counsel and support experienced the community of the Jesuits. Soon joined to the Community other young women who were attracted by the attitude of the Braunsberger sisters. On March 18, 1583 the Congregation was recognized by Bishop Martin Kromer after twelve years of testing. As patroness of the Congregation Protmann chose the saint of the parish church of Brown Mountain, St. Catherine of Alexandria. So the name was Catherine's sisters ( complete: Congregation of the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin and Martyr Catherine of Alexandria. ). It originated daughter -ups in Wormditt ( 1586), Heilenberg ( 1586/87 ) and Knight's ( 1593/97 ). However, the spin-offs were confined to the standing under Polish suzerainty Bishopric of Warmia, which formed a Catholic island in Prussia. Finally, the order was granted in 1602 by revising rules of their order by Peter Tilicki papal approval. The community had to move still alive Regina Protmanns lack of space several times. When the foundress died on 18 January 1613, the Community consisted of 35 sisters in the four convents.
Regina Protmann Catherine and her sisters are paving the way for many subsequent nursing order. On 13 June 1999, she was beatified by Pope John Paul II.
Today the Order comprises about 900 sisters and is adjacent to the area of origin in what is now Poland and in Germany, Lithuania, Brazil, Italy, Togo, Benin, Cameroon, Russia and Belarus active. In Germany, it operates among others, several hospitals and nursing homes.
In the church of the monastery on Ermlandweg in Münster- children house relics are kept by Regina Protmann.