Pascalina Lehnert [SEP] date of death
Pascalina Lehnert
Madre (Mother) Pascalina Lehnert (25 August 1894, Ebersberg, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire – 13 November 1983, Vienna, Austria), born Josefina Lehnert, was a German Roman Catholic nun who served as Pope Pius XII's housekeeper and secretary from his period as Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria in 1917 until his death as pope in 1958. She managed the papal charity office for Pius XII from 1944 until the pontiff's death in 1958. She was a Sister of the Holy Cross, Menzingen
die Republik Österreich").
Death.
Madre Pascalina died from a cerebral hemorrhage in Vienna, aged 89, in 1983. She is buried at the Vatican "Camposanto" (cemetery). Several bishops and cardinals, among them Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, also Bavarian, attended her funeral.
Works.
- Lehnert, Pascalina. "Ich durfte Ihm Dienen, Erinnerungen an Papst Pius XII." Naumann, Würzburg, 1986
- Lehnert, Pascalina; Susan Johnson (transl.). "His Humble