Sister pascalinas autobiography

German Catholic religious sister

Pascalina Lehnert (25 August 1894 – 13 November 1983), born Josefina Lehnert, was a German religious sister who served as Pope Pius XII's housekeeper, confidant, and secretary from his period as Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria in 1917 until his death as pope in 1958.^[1] 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.

Early career

"Madre Pascalina", as she was called, led Eugenio Pacelli's household in the nunciature in Munich, Bavaria, from 1917 to 1925 and in the nunciature to Germany and Prussia in Berlin from 1925 to 1929, where Nuncio Pacelli was Dean of the Diplomatic Corps.

Sister pascalinas autobiography pdf

There she became known for organizing the Pacelli parties, "which were auspicious, tastefully sprinkling glitter with the strictest European etiquette. [...] The nunciature was soon a major center of Germany's social and official worlds.

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