Blessed Mary Frances Schervier

Berkeley, December 9, 2025 12:23 PM

Feast day: December 15

Novena:

My understanding, so far, feel free to edit, is that Blessed Mary Frances Schervier was born to a distinguish family in Aachen, which is currently in Germany, near the border to the Netherlands and Belgium, I believe, and when she was born near the first quarter of the 1800s was ruled by Prussia.

In 1844, Blessed Mary Frances became a secular Franciscan Sister.

Soon after that she with four companions devoted their life to the mission Sister of the Poor of Saint Francis.

That organization or order expanded. The first one in the United States was founded in 1858.

Blessed Mary Frances Shervier visited the United States in 1863 and 1868. The first time was to help with nurses during the Civil War. In her second visit, she encouraged Philip Hoever in his path to establish the order (third order) of Brothers of Saint Francis of the Poor.

Sources, or text paraphrased from. See more sources to listen to, in my case at some point, at the bottom of this page:

Blessed Mary Frances Schervier

Novena:

Order:

1. Invitatory as of in the Liturgy of the Hours if Possible.
2. Partial or complete rossary
3. Liturgy of the Hours. Ideally it might be before the rosary. However, currently, we have adapted to pray a complete daily rosary, usually from the version from the Dominican Confraternity of the Holy Rosary, with scripture based meditations per bead.
4. Blessed Frances Schervier intersection. Pray for us.

Day 1. Dec 6. Blessed Frances Schervier: Born in Aachen, to a distinguish family. answered the call to become an instrument of the Lord. Pray for us.

Day 2. Dec 7. Blessed Frances Schervier: Became a secular Franciscan Sister in 1944. Pray for us.

Day 3. Dec 8. Blessed Frances Schervier: In 1845, Blessed Frances Schervier with four companions established a religious community for caring of the our neighbor (or of the poor?).

Day 4. Dec 9. Blessed Frances Schervier: In 1851, a local bishop, probably from Aachen (?). Who was the bishop. It is an important fact, because the bishop approved the Third Order of Sister of Saint Francis of the Poor.

Day 5. Dec 10. Blessed Frances Schervier: Communities of The third Order of Saint Francis of the Poor took a momentum an spread (to where?). The first foundation of this order in the United States was made in 1858.

Day 6. Dec 11. Blessed Frances Schervier: In 1863, helped her Order Sister to nurse wounded soldier during the Civil War in United States.

Day 7. Dec 12. Blessed Frances Schervier. Somewhen between 1857 to 1868, Blessed Frances Schervier encouraged Philip Hoever in his path to establish the Third Order of Brother of Saint Francis of the Poor. The first order of Third Order of Franciscas Brothers was at Aachen.

Day 8. Dec. 13. Blessed Frances Schervier died on December 14, 1876 at the age of 57 years old in Aachen. See current status of the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor.

Day 9. Dec 14. Blessed Frances Schervier beatification was on April 28, 1974 by Pope Paul VI.

Frast day. December 15

Blessed Frances Schervier pray for us.

https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/poor-brothers-of-saint-francis-seraphicus

https://franciscansisters-en.sfp-poor.org/about-us/frances-schervier.html

Account of the origin of the Sisters of the poor of St. Francis

Click to access fs_account_of_the-origin.pdf