{"id":6658,"date":"2025-07-24T09:39:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generalat-hsosf.de\/?p=6658"},"modified":"2025-07-24T09:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:49:29","slug":"sister-m-alfriedis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalat-hsosf.de\/en\/sister-m-alfriedis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister M. Alfriedis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sister M. Alfriedis<\/em><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Born: February 2, 1931
Entrance: August 8, 1952
Professed: May 3, 1955
Died: July 19, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the hope that Christ, her strength and light, would guide her on her way, our fellow sister, born by the name Gertrud Sch\u00f6lpen, Hospital Sister of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis, gave her life back into the hands of the good and merciful God.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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My hope and my joy, my strength, my light,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christ my confidence. I trust in you and am not afraid.<\/em><\/p>\n(Gotteslob No. 365)<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sister M. Alfriedis was born in Homberg on the Lower Rhine shortly before the beginning of the Third Reich. Her childhood and school years fell during the time of National Socialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her school certificate bears a stamp with the swastika. Her Catholic family did not have an easy time, but their strong faith carried them through these difficult times and had a lasting impact on their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the age of 21, Gertrud Sch\u00f6lpen joined our religious order and became Sister M. Alfriedis.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caring for the sick and elderly was always a deep concern of hers. After qualifying, she worked for\u00a033 years as a nurse and ward sister\u00a0in H\u00fcckeswagen and Waldniel. She then completed a geriatric care seminar while working, in Holthausen, and moved from the Rhineland into elder care at K\u00f6rbecke on Lake M\u00f6hne, with intermediate stops in Dortmund and Sevelen. In\u00a02012, she was finally able to rest from her long service and moved as a senior to the\u00a0Maria Hilf convent in Telgte. In\u00a02015, she transferred to the\u00a0St. Heriburg House, where she spent her final months in the new ward\u00a0St. Klara, enjoying the special atmosphere of this residential group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to reports,\u00a0her namesake, Saint Alfried, died \u201crich in days\u201d\u2014and so did Sister M. Alfriedis, who lived to be\u00a094 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We gratefully bid farewell to Sister M. Alfriedis.\u00a0We remain united to her in our prayers and in the celebration of the Eucharist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In Memoriam Sister M. Alfriedis, German Province<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":{"x":0.5,"y":0.05},"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-memoriam-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalat-hsosf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalat-hsosf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalat-hsosf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalat-hsosf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalat-hsosf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6658"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/generalat-hsosf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6681,"href":"https:\/\/generalat-hsosf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658\/revisions\/6681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalat-hsosf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalat-hsosf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalat-hsosf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalat-hsosf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}