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...engineering professor, and Erika Maddaus, daughter of a merchant. Even after Hitler had banned Bible classes, the two teachers went on instructing a group of girls in a Darmstadt attic. In the night of Sept. n, 1944, an Allied saturation raid blasted the city. Wrote Dr. Schlink (now Mother Basilea): "It was a different language from human preaching. It was as awesome and unmistakable as God speaking in judgment. It went through bone and marrow. It was the hour of renaissance. The girls no longer needed to be reminded of Bible classes. They came on their bicycles through continual strafing...
Prayers & Sculpture. The Sisterhood of St. Mary was formally organized in 1947 in Darmstadt, with nine members and a capital of 30 marks. "Stoves, beds and chairs had to be prayed for and mustered through faith," says Mother Basilea. Two solid weeks of prayer finally brought the housing authority around to granting them a room. Then they set about praying for furniture. "A broom was sent to us for which we had prayed for a week. A note was tied to it: 'The Lord insisted that I send you this. Did you really need...
Business & Vigils. With Mother Basilea in charge of the spiritual direction and Mother Martyria (Erika Maddaus) keeping the administration running efficiently, the sisters perform a repertory of a dozen religious plays, do social work in the slums, manufacture statuary, also maintain a stiff schedule of devotions. They keep silence all day except during "business hours" between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., hold many prayer vigils. At 6 p.m. each Friday, for instance, they gather in penance for the wrongs committed by the Germans against the Jews. "It cries, it cries without relief, the blood on our hands...
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