Maria Katherina Scherer
Anna Maria Katherina Scherer (31 October 1825 – 16 June 1888) was a Swiss religious sister and the co-founder of the Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross. She founded that congregation alongside the Capuchin priest Theodosius Florentini. She was given the name Maria Theresia upon her investiture.
She was beatified on 29 October 1995.
In the Martyrology
- June 16 Blessed Maria Theresia Scherer, virgin, cofounder of the Sisters of Charity of the Holy Cross of Ingenbohl