Sister Mary of the Trinity

Cause for Beatification and Canonization of Sister Mary of the Trinity

"Sr. Mary of the Trinity—Luisa Jaques, as she was known in her early life, was born on 26 April 1901 in South Africa, where her father was a Protestant pastor and founder of missions in Pretoria and Johannesburg. Her mother died in childbirth, and Louise was raised in Switzerland, her family’s country of origin, by an aunt. A strong will and strong principles combined with a very fragile state of health, repeated disappointments at work, a failed relationship with a married man, and great loneliness due to her beloved family being so far away brought her, at the age of twenty-five to not understanding the meaning of life and to make the bitter pronouncement: 'There is not God'. But it was during this night that 'despair entered the light': a presence came to her, 'a religious sister wearing a deep brown garment, belted with a cord'. From this moment on she was reborn in an 'irresistible attraction' to the cloister, and an ardent desire to receive the Eucharist. Thus, began the journey that would lead her to become a child of the Catholic Church."

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