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Höss, Marie Kreszentia, Blessed

HÖSS, MARIE KRESZENTIA, BEATA

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Also known as: German: Maria Crescentia Höss, Maria Kreszentia Höss; Crescentia of Kaufbeuren, Blessed Maria Crescentia Höss, Maria Crescentia Hoss

HÖSS, Marie Kreszentia, Blessed. - B. Oct. 20, 1682 at Kaufbeuren (diocese of Augsburg), d. Apr. 5, 1744. In 1703 she entered the monastery of the Franciscan Tertiaries of Kaufbeuren, where, overcoming many humiliations and difficulties, she rose to great virtue. She was mistress of novices from 1714 and from 1741 superior. She was greatly esteemed by high-ranking personages, among them the Empress Maria Theresa herself. Through a vast epistolary correspondence she was able to exercise a broad apostolate and a notable influence on her time. She was beatified on Oct. 7, 1900. Feast on Apr. 6.

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BIBL.: I. Jeiler, Leben der M. Kr. H. von K., Dülmen 1884 (9th ed. 1929; Italian trans., Quaracchi 1900); E. Schlund, Aus dem Gebetlichen einer Heiligen, in Zeitschr. für Asesse u. Mystik, 2 (1927), pp. 205-210; J. B. Gatz, Mein Leben ist Lieben, mein Leben ist Leiden: Ein Lebensbild der sel. M.Kr.H. von K., Munich 1930.

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Majarelli, Stanislao. “Höss, marie kreszentia, beata.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 1485. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/hoss-marie-kreszentia-beata.

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Majarelli, Stanislao. “Höss, marie kreszentia, beata.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1485. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/hoss-marie-kreszentia-beata.

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  title     = {Höss, marie kreszentia, beata},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
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  pages     = {1485},
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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
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