Pauline Mallinckrodt
Pauline von Mallinckrodt, SCC (3 June 1817 - 30 April 1881) was a German noblewoman and the foundress of the Sisters of Christian Charity, a Catholic religious institute.
Born into the aristocratic Mallinckrodt family as the daughter of a Lutheran father and Catholic mother, from her adolescence she began to tend to the blind and sick. This venture expanded into what became a religious congregation which spread at a rapid pace; she herself traveled to a range of places to oversee its growth and development. She died in 1881 and was beatified on 14 April 1985.
Patron saint of Sisters of Christian Charity
In the Martyrology
- April 30 Blessed Paulina Von Mallinckrodt, virgin, founder of the Sisters of Christian Charity