Blessed Maria Louise Merkert
Also known as
Maria Luiza Merkert
Profile
Second and last daughter born to Anthony Merkert and Maria Barbara Pfitzner, she was raised in a pious, middle-class family. Her father died when Maria was still a baby. She and her sister grew to both be devoted to care for the poor. Co-founder in 1842 of the Sisters of Saint Elizabeth in Nelsse, Prussia, to tend in their own homes, without compensation, helpless sick persons who could not or would not be received into the hospitals; she served as their first superior until her death.
Born
21 September 1817 in Nysa, Opolskie, Poland (formerly in the Breslau region of Germany
Died
14 November 1872 in Nysa, Opolskie, Poland of typhus
Beatified
20 September 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI
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