HAZE, MARIE-THÉRÈSE. – Founder of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Cross for the education of children of the common people; born in Liège on 27 February 1782, died there on 7 January 1876. The French Revolution forced her parents, who were well-to-do, into exile and the loss of their property.
Endowed with lively intelligence, she desired from her youth to consecrate herself to the good of youth, distinguishing herself for profound piety and dedication to works of religion. She then resolved to devote herself solely to the poor. After overcoming no small difficulties, in 1844 she founded her Congregation, to which she soon added care for the sick and for female prisoners in hospitals, orphanages, and refuges for wayward young women. During the forty-two years of her leadership, she was able to see the spread of her Institute in Belgium, Germany, England, and the Indies.
The cause of her beatification has been introduced before the Sacred Congregation of Rites.