Pauline von Mallinckrodt
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Blessed Pauline von Mallinckrodt |
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3 June 1817 Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, German Confederation |
| Died | 30 April 1881 (aged 63) Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, German Empire |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 14 April 1985, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
| Feast | 30 April |
| Attributes | Religious habit |
| Patronage | Sisters of Christian Charity |
Blessed Pauline von Mallinckrodt (3 June 1817 - 30 April 1881) was a German Roman Catholic professed religious and the foundress of the Sisters of Christian Charity. Mallinckrodt was born into an aristocratic household as the daughter of a Protestant father and Christian mother and from her adolescence began to tend to blind people and other ill people. This venture expanded into what became her religious order which spread at a rapid pace; she herself travelled to a range of places to oversee the growth and development of her order in those places.
Her beatification cause opened in 1958 and she later was beatified on 14 April 1985.
Pauline von Mallinckrodt was born in Minden on 3 June 1817 as the eldest of four children to the politician Christian Detmar Karl von Mallinckrodt (04.12.1769-04.04.1842) and Marianna Bernhardina Katharina von Mallinckrodt (23.03-1787-17.08.1834). The distinguished parliamentarian Hermann Josef Christian von Mallinckrodt (05.02.1821-26.05.1874) was her little brother as was Georg Detmar Ignaz Franz Daniel Wilhem von Mallinckrodt (c.1819-21.03.1881) and sister Bertha von Mallinckrodt. Her father was a Protestant but all children were baptized because her mother was a devout Christian; she was baptized as "Maria Bernardine Sophia Pauline".
In 1826 her father was transferred to Aix-la-Chapelle where Pauline attended Saint Leonard's school. Her classmates included Clara Fey and Blessed Maria Franciscka Schervier; one of her teachers were Luise Hensel. In the fall of 1832 she continued her studies at a French school in Liege. Following a tour through Switzerland in 1833 with her parents she returned to Aix-la-Chapelle. Mallinckrodt received her Confirmation in August 1835. Upon her return from Switzerland her parents wanted her to integrate into aristocratic circles and she did this despite finding social functions a distasteful affair; she did this in obedience to her parents. Her mother grew ill to the point where she accompanied her mother to a health resort in Schwalbach for her to recover.
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