The origins of the Sisters of St Louis can be traced back to 1797 to Turkenstein near Strasbourg, when three people (Abbé Louis Joseph Colmar, Marie Madeline Louise Humann, and Marie Thérèse Brek) signed a spiritual act of union, where they promised to remain united together in the heart of Christ until death, to fulfil Christ’s prayer. Of our three first ancestors Marie Thérèse Brek is the one we have least information about and no portraits.
A two-part series was published in the Sisters of St Louis’ monthly newsletter Musings, and you can read both parts here by clicking on both links below: