Schwester M. Servulina

Born: 8. Dezember 1928
Entrance: 27. Januar 1951
Profession: 3. Mai 1954
Died: 17. März 2025

On her name day, our good God called our Sister, Hospital Sister of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis, born in the name of Gertrud Micke, to Himself.

Faithful is God who calls you. He will also complete it.

(1. Thess. 5,24)

Sister M. Servulina was born as one of six siblings in Münster-Amelsbüren, where her father was a forester at Herold Castle. As her mother died early, she grew up with foster parents in Füchtorf, who took very good care of her, as she repeatedly said. It was here that she came in contact with the Franciscan Sisters from St. Mauritz, who worked in outpatient care.

At the age of twenty-three, Gertrud joined our religious Congregation and became a member of our community. Among other things, she worked in the hospitals in Haselünne, Lünen, Liesborn and Ennigerloh as a ward sister. In 1979, Sister M. Servulina came to Seppenrade and remained there until the convent was dissolved in 2021. We know her from that time as a receptionist and even better as an organist who played the organ with lot of love and accompanied the church services.  We will always remember her calm and kind manner and her shining eyes.

A few days before her death, Sister M. Servulina was admitted to St. Francis Hospital and was due to be discharged on March 18. However, she insisted that she be discharged on March 17, on her name’s day. In the afternoon, she received the anointing of the sick and the doctor finally allowed her to return to St. Heriburg House that evening. When the nurses said goodbye to her for the night, she had no wishes and just wanted to sleep. So she fell asleep and quietly and unnoticed made her way to God, for whom she longed very much, shortly before midnight.

We gratefully bid farewell to Sister M. Servulina. In prayer and in the celebration of the Eucharist, we remember her and remain connected to her as Sisters.