Saint Maria Crescentia Hoss
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- Also known as
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Mary Crescentia Hoss
Crescentia Hoss
- Memorial
- 5 April
- Profile
- Seventh of the eight children of Matthias Höss and Lucia Hoermann.
Franciscan tertiary nun in 1703, admitted to the convent at Kaufbeuren at the request of the town's Protestant mayor.
Mistreated by her new sisters for her lack of a dowry, her holiness overcame their hostility, and she won them all over.
Porter.
Novice-mistress from 1726 to 1741.
Reluctant superior of her house from 1741 until her death in 1744.
- Born
- 20 October 1682 at Kaufbeuren, Bavaria
- Died
- Easter 1744 at Kaufbeuren of natural causes;
interred in the chapel of her monastery
- Beatified
- 1900
- Canonized
- 25 November 2001 by Pope John Paul II
- Additional Information
- L'Osservatore Romano
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- Readings
- God wants the convent rich in virtue, not in temporal goods.
-Saint Maria Hoss