Irene Hartman, OP: 1921-2017 |
Thanks to Sr. Irene Hartman OP for her many book reviews submitted to Daily Spiritual Seed, and her decades of service as a Dominican Sister.
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Sister Irene Hartman, 95, died August 17, 2017, in the Dominican Sisters' convent infirmary, Great Bend.
Born December 17, 1921, in Clonmel, Kansas, as Germaine Hartman, Sister Irene was the daughter of the late Emil and Eva Bull Hartman. She was one of fourteen siblings. She entered the Dominican Sisters' Community in Great Bend September 9, 1935, and pronounced her first vows August 17, 1939. She celebrated seventy-five years of religious profession in 2014.
Sister Irene gave over thirty-five years of her
ministerial life to teaching in elementary parochial schools of Kansas and Nebraska. She was both teacher and principal in six of the thirteen schools in which she taught grades three to eight. For the leadership team she was councilor, historian, and secretary of the congregation and also worked in the congregational archives. Later in Larned, Kansas, she ministered in pastoral care in the CD unit of St. Joseph Hospital and in parish ministry at Sacred Heart Church. After 1998 she took on the
writing of the congregational history and completed two books – the story of the Foundress Sister Antonina Fisher and Dominican Woman of the Sunflower State. She continued to serve Sacred Heart Parish especially as a minister to the elderly. Later from her computer in the convent infirmary she continued writing a great number of book reviews and inspirational articles for the Heartland Center for Spirituality’s on- line ministry publications and for the Southwest Kansas Catholic, the newspaper
for the Dodge City Kansas Diocese.
Sister Irene’s siblings have all entered eternal life but she is survived by numerous nieces and nephews.
- Thanks to Sr. Elaine Osborne, OP for this obituary.
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St. Jeanne Jugan: 1792-1879. August 30.
When Jeanne was three and a half years old, her father, a
fisherman, was lost at sea. Her widowed mother was hard pressed to raise her eight children alone; four died young. At the age of 15 or 16, Jeanne became a kitchen maid for a family that not only cared for its own members, but also served poor, elderly people nearby. Ten years later, Jeanne became a nurse at the hospital in Le Rosais. Soon thereafter, she joined a third order group founded by Saint John Eudes.
After six years she became a servant and friend of a woman she met through the third order. They prayed, visited the poor, and taught catechism to children. After her friend’s death, Jeanne and two other women continued a similar life in the city of Saint-Sevran. In 1839, they brought in their first permanent guest. They began an association,
received more members, and more guests. Mère Marie of the Cross, as Jeanne was now known, founded six more houses for the elderly by the end of 1849, all staffed by members of her association—the Little Sisters of the Poor. By 1853, the association numbered 500 and had houses as far away as England.
Abbé Le Pailleur, a chaplain, had prevented Jeanne’s reelection as superior in 1843; nine years later, he had her assigned to duties within the congregation, but would not allow her to be recognized as its founder. In 1890, the Holy See removed him from office.
By the time Pope Leo XIII gave her final approval to the community’s constitutions in 1879, there were 2,400 Little Sisters of the Poor. Jeanne died later that same year, on August 30. Her cause was introduced in Rome in 1970. She was beatified in 1982, and canonized in 2009.
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