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Although her family was scattered all over the world – in the
Transvaal, in Missouri, in Switzerland and Italy respectively, and later in Jerusalem – Louisa always remained connected with her parents, her siblings Alexandre (1895–1949), Elisabeth (1896–1977 ) and Alice (1898–1988 ), as well as with
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October 1926 because of a job, Louisa decided, through the mediation of a priest, to take catechism classes with the Sisters "Nostra Signora del Cenacolo" in that city. Mother Reggio prepared her for baptism conversion to the Roman Catholic Church. Although she was invited
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several times by her father to South Africa and by her sister Alice to
America, she decided to stay in Italy. A change in her job as a tutor and educator introduced her to the world of the Milanese aristocracy, particularly the family of Countess Agliardi. In this context, she completed a kind of
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Bluette de Blaireville, Louisa finally arrived in La Chaux-de-Fonds, where she met the community of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Mary, which she entered in 1931. As Sr. Monique Marie du Bon Pasteur, she was admitted to the novitiate and was able to obtain a state
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at the family home. In March 1924 she again found work as a typist with the theologian and later pastor Lydia von Auw, a friend of her family. An acute hemorrhage shortly after she started work resulted in her being referred to the "Béthanie" house in
Lausanne, run by deaconesses, for tuberculin
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Through her confessor, Fr. Sylvère Van den Broeck, she was urged in the last two years of her life to put down in writing her vocational journey and also to record the words of the "inner voice" she heard. After her death, he published her writings. This edition of 1943, translated into various
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Louisa Jaques decided to visit her family in South Africa, together with her sister Alice and her children, and arrived in
Johannesburg on August 28, 1937, where she was reunited with her parents and siblings. Still uncertain about her future, she took up employment as a home teacher in various
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At the end of 1917, the sixteen-year-old Louisa took up her first job as a secretary with a socially and politically committed couple named Horber, who helped organize the founding of a "Swiss
Federation for Transitional Reforms" in the Swiss post-war period. Weakened by anemia and with the
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Rittmeyer (1891–1925) exacerbated her own family, economic, and health situation when he died unexpectedly. Louisa fell into a life crisis marked by severe depression; it lasted from 1925 to 1926.
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Suzanne Verena Pfenninger (1896-1977), who later converted to the Roman Catholic Church and gave Louisa a decisive impulse toward appreciating the reality of the Catholic sacraments during a summer vacation in Switzerland in 1927.
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Bluette, on the night of February 13–14, exactly one year after the doctor's death, she had a mystical experience – a kind of vision of a religious woman – which gave her the inner certainty that she must enter a contemplative order.
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Three convent entries that took place in 1929/30 were short-lived. These were the Little Sisters of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven, the Franciscan Sisters of the Mission in Egypt, and the Franciscan Sisters of the Child Jesus.
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milieu by two of her mother's sisters, Louisa completed her schooling in the summer of 1917 without a state certificate, as her education had been limited to private schools. She matured to be a subtle and
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languages in the years that followed, brought about an unprecedented awareness and engagement with the spiritual content of these writings, especially in Italy through the work of the Franciscans of the
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The works of Sister Mary of the Trinity have been published in French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Slovenian, Croatian, German, Arabic, Hungarian, Portuguese and English editions.
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In the archives of the monastery there is a testimony by Gian Paolo Agliardi (1925-2008), who recorded in it his memories about his "teacher." Fondo MdTr Testimonianze I.2.11.
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