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Born in Westphalia, Germany, Mother Mary Michaele pursued the teaching
profession before joining Father Janssen's newly formed woman's
missionary congregation. Invested with the blue habit and white
veil of the Mission Sisters, Sister Michaele made temporary vows
with them and was later appointed for the African Missions. The
appointment was cancelled and she became one of the founding group
to receive the rose-colored habit and white scapular and veil of
the cloistered branch on December 8, 1896. A year later Mother Mary
Michaele was chosen acting superior of the cloistered community.
Later she was elected superior general, an office she exercised
until her death.
Through Mother Mary Michaele's efforts, the Congregation of the
Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters received its own rule and became an
independent foundation. She supervised the erection of the Motherhouse,
was instrumental in having perpetual exposition introduced into
the congregation, and she herself chose the roman Breviary for the
Sisters' choir prayer. In addition she introduced the special nocturnal
intercessory prayer for priests and gave the Congregation an international
character by opening chapels of perpetual adoration in the United
States, Germany, the Philippines, and China.
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