Basilea Schlink, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German religious leader
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Place of Birth: Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
About Basilea Schlink
- Mother Basilea, born Klara Schlink (October 21, 1904 in Darmstadt, Germany – March 21, 2001 in Darmstadt) was a German religious leader and writer.
- She was leader of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, which she cofounded, from 1947 to 2001. Basilea Schlink was a sister of Edmund Schlink, a professor in theology.
- Her father Wilhelm Schlink was a professor of mechanics.
- After finishing high school in Braunschweig and Darmstadt, she was educated (from 1923) at the Fröbelseminar in Kassel, from 1924 at the Inner missions girls' school in Berlin.
- In 1929 she became a teacher at the Mission House Malche in Bad Freienwalde (Oder) in German, psychology and church history.
- After matriculation in 1930 she studied psychology, art history and philosophy in Berlin and Hamburg.
- This study was completed by a religious-psychologic thesis about “Consciousness of Sin in adolescent girls and its significance for their battle of faith.” Some years later Schlink was living in a badly bombed Germany with few resources, but it was important for her to repent for Germany's cruel treatment of other nations during the war, especially the Jews.
- She felt the temptation to marry like other young women did.
- Instead she gave her mission the first priority, and so she became a Sister of Mary. On March 30, 1947, she and Erika Madauss founded The Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary in Darmstadt.
- In 1948 both the founders and the first seven sisters became nuns.
- From then on, Dr.
- Klara Schlink called herself Mutter Basilea and Erika Madaus called herself Mutter Martyria.
- Today, The Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary has 11 subdivisions all over the world, with in total 209 sisters, and about 130 of these are situated in Darmstadt.
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