TIMELINE OF THE LIFE OF MOTHER FRANCES STREITEL
November 24, 1844: Amalia Frances Rose Streitel born in Mellrichstadt, Germany.
1867: At age 23, Amalia receives Franciscan habit of Maria Stern, Franciscan order, and name "Sr Angela."
1867-1880: St. Angela ministers with the community of Maria Stern.
1880: Sr. Angela experiences an interior prompting to leave and to go to Carmel; she receives the Carmelite habit in 1882 and the name "Petra."
1882: After having a mystical experience in prayer before the Sacred Heart, and a vision of two mountains merging, Sister Petra realized God was calling her to begin a new task. She left Carmel.
1883: Father Jordan invites Mother Frances to Rome to collaborate on a women's branch of the Teaching Society. She arrives in Rome on February 16. Though much effort was made, their collaboration clarified they had different charisms for the Church.
1883: Mother Frances begins the foundation for a new order, the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother. Other women join her.
1884: Mother Frances and the Sisters shelter orphans in the Convent. Homecare to the sick in Rome begins.
1885: The Congregation receives the name: "Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother." Msgr. Jacquemin is appointed spiritual director.
May 15, 1890: Mother Frances arrives in the United States for the first time. She helps found St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield, Wis., and St. Mary's Hospital in Menomonie, Wis.
1891: Mother Frances establishes St. Mary's Hospital in Oshkosh, Wis. (now Mercy Hospital of Affinity Health System), and St. Mary's Parish School in Aleppo, Kansas.
1893: Mother Frances helps found St. Mary's Hospital in Rhinelander, Wis., and Sacred Heart Hospital in Tomahawk, Wis.
1895: Mother Frances helps found St. Francis Health Resort in Denville, NJ.
1897: Mother Frances and the Sisters begin hospital work in Mankato, Minn.
1898: Mother Frances helps found St. Elizabeth Hospital in Wabasha, Minn.
1906: Mother Frances establishes an American motherhouse and novitiate in Marshfield, Wis.
March 6, 1911: Mother Frances dies in Castel Sant'Elia, Italy. The Congregation receives its official final approval as a papal Congregation of papal right on the day of her death.
March 27, 2010: Mother Frances Streitel receives the title "Venerable" by Pope Bendict XVI.
