Sister M. Annuntiata Arlinghaus
Born: December 11, 1931
Entrance: January 28, 1955
Professed: October 28, 1957
Died: November 11, 1924
On the morning of St. Martin’s Day, our dear Sister M. Annuntiata Arlinghaus, Hospital Sister of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis, gave her life back into God’s hands. .
I received my life from the hand of God,
Saint Augustine
I shaped my life under God’s hand,
I give my life back into God’s hands.
Sister M. Annuntiata was born in Lohne in the Oldenburg region, where she also went to school. At the age of 24, she entered our congregation, just like her biological Sister M. Priscilliana.
After completing her nursing training at St. Franziskus Hospital in Münster, she worked as a nurse and ward nurse in Gronau, Gelsenkirchen-Erle, Haltern, Neuss, Ascheberg and Straelen until 1979. She then completed her training as a geriatric nurse with outstanding results. She worked in Issum-Sevelen from 1985 to 2009.
We got to know Sister M. Annuntiata as a Sister with a great sense of humour and wit, a true original, who was always the first to see the positive side of things. In doing so, she delighted the patients and residents she cared for, and also the staff and fellow Sisters in the institutions where she worked. Some of the staff from Issum-Sevelen stayed in contact with her until the end. They visited her from time to time.
When her strength began to fail, she returned to her home in Oldenburg, Kroge, as a senior citizen. In the beginning she still enjoyed working here and doing small tasks. She loved to sing. It expressed her good mood and her faith. She never lost her sense of humour and her witty sayings right up to the end of her life. On the last night of her life, when her health was suddenly failing and the nurses were under her care, she sent them away with a typical saying: “Go with God – but quickly!” A few hours later she went to God. She followed her sister M. Priscilliana, with whom she had lived in Kroge.
We gratefully bid farewell to Sister M. Annunitata. We remember her in prayer and in the celebration of the Eucharist. We remain united with her as sisters. We will celebrate the resurrection mass for Sister M. Annuntiata on Friday, November 15, 2024 at 2.30 p.m. in the convent church in Kroge. We will then accompany her to her final resting place in the Kroge cemetery. Afterwards, we can share our memories of her over coffee in the convent.
