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Title: Life of Mother Magdalene Daemen, O.S.F. : foundress of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Penance and Christian Charity / based upon M. Paula Munster’s German edition, "History of the Franciscan Sisters" ; by W. J. Metz
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Munster, M. Paula
Subjects: Magdalene Daemen, Mother, 1787-1858 Franciscan Sisters of Penance and Christian Charity -- Biography
Publisher: Stella Niagara, N. Y. : Sisters of St. Francis
Contributing Library: Catholic Theological Union
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God called Mother Theresa prematurely away from
the scene of her labors on the 20th of April, 1846. Though
suffering from a slow and incurable disease, she was
always cheerful, and never tired in her faithful work
till the end. Around her deathbed were gathered Father
van der Zandt and all the members of the sorrowing
community, including Mother Magdalene. She was only
thirty-six years old at the time of her death.
A general election two weeks later, May 5th, 1846,
placed Mother Bernardine, nee Mensink, in charge of
the Congregation, which at this time numbered twenty-
eight Sisters. During the thirteen years of her ad-
ministration she erected no less than nineteen branch
institutions both in Holland and in Germany, and had
the great happiness of witnessing the approval of the
Congregation by the Holy See.
It was naturally the most ardent and cherished desire
of both Mother Magdalene and Father van der Zandt
to have the now rapidly growing Congregation recog-
nized and sanctioned by the highest authority in the
Church. Though the ever vigilant pastor had at vari-
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NONNENWERTH


Progress During Mother Magdalenes Lifetime. 125

ous times and in various quarters made strenuous ef-
forts to that end, he had till then been unsuccessful.
He now determined to address himself directly to the
Sovereign Pontiff. Towards the end of 1851 he sub-
mitted a lengthy petition to Pius IX, a part of which
is here reproduced on account of the historical informa-
tion it contains.
Since the year 1835 there exists in my parish an as-
sociation of pious women of the Third Order of St.
Francis, to whom the Bishop of Liege, under whose
obedience we then stood, granted the permission to wear
the habit of the Third Order of Penance, and to live ac-
cording to Father Marchant's reformed constitutions,
as approved by Pope Urban VIII, on the 15th day of
July, 1634. Our Rt. Eev. Bishop Paredis, The Apostolic
Administrator of Limburg, under whose jurisdiction we
now live, has renewed the said approval. The pious as-
sociation has meanwhile so happily increased that it
now exists in five separate convents, and an account of

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