Aid to the Church in Need: Mother Albertine of the Daughters of the Resurrection passes away

Mother Albertine of the Daughters of the Resurrection passes away

Posted by Information Report on 17/10/2008, 12:32 pm
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MOTHER ALBERTINE - DAUGHTERS OF THE RESURRECTION

Sister Albertine, former Superior of the Daughters of the Resurrection, has died on 29 September 2008. She was buried on 1st October at the congregation's Mother House in Mirhi, near Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Sister Albertine was a witness of the history of the congregation. She was one of the first pupils of Mother Hadewych and her Belgian congregation when the plan to found an indigenous African congregation was first established in 1966, on the initiative of Mother Hadewych and Father Werenfried van Straaten (the founder of the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need).

For many years she was in charge of the postulants and later of the novices. After Mother Christine and Mother Florida, she became the third African superior of the congregation. She gave herself heart and soul to make this community grow and prosper, a semi-contemplative community which today numbers 200 sisters.

Together with her sisters, in the midst of a political and social situation that was highly volatile she faced a series of crises that punctuated the history of the community, and indeed of the entire region of South Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the majority of the houses of the congregation are situated.

For some years now her health had been severely undermined, and she passed away after having "fought the good fight".

Sister Albertine of the congregation of "Daughters of the Resurrection" (from Bukavu in Democratic Republic of Congo) with
Father Jos van Crieckinge (ACN Belgium) at Father Werenfried´s tomb in Germany.

For further information please contact the Australian office of ACN on (02) 9679-1929. e-mail: info@aidtochurch.org or write to Aid to the Church in Need PO Box 6245 Blacktown DC NSW 2148. Web: www.aidtochurch.org

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