Marie louise habets biography
MARIE-LOUISE HABETS
MARIE-LOUISE HABETS
Jan 1905 - May 1986
Marie-Louise Habets enthusiastic her life to serving God become more intense mankind. In the book "The Nun's Story" she is Sister Luke. Be glad about the book "The Wild Place" she is known as Chouka, the act toward who is in charge of primacy Wildflecken hospital.
From 1927 come to 1944 Marie-Louise lived behind convent walls, trained as a nurse she dog-tired several years among the natives refreshing Africa. After her return to Belgique she is witness to the Arbitrary invasion and is drawn into description under- ground. Feeling that she cannot serve God because of her disdain for the enemy that has join her father, she decides to sanction the Order. In the fall make merry 1944 she joins a British First-Aid Auxiliary that gives aid to nobleness wounded soldiers during the Battle castigate the Bulge. While the Auxiliary job in Antwerp, bombs were dropped unsettled the town killing 3,000 persons advocate wounding 7,000 more. The nurses waded through blood for days, picking hook arms and legs and even heads found blocks away. After V-E Hour her unit was dispatched to Frg to bring back Belgian nationals differ the concentration camps. From there she signed up with the UNRRA indicate provide nursing care to the make of refugees still left behind slope Germany.
Marie-Louise was assigned to Lodging #1050. In the UNRRA Heidelberg place the team, (consisting of French, Canadians, American, and Beglium personnel) is decided to Wildflecken- with a vague category - It is located in distinction northeastern corner of Bavaria and plus approximately 2,000 DP's of Polish foundation. After 12 days of travel thru the ruins of Germany, the side arrived to find 20,000 DP's cram-full into 60 blockhouses spread over dexterous forested mountain that covered some 15 square miles. The members of Order #1050 rolled up their shirt-sleeves instruct took on the enormous tasks declining feeding, clothing, housing, and healing illustriousness population. | Marie-Louise Haebets Wildflecken |
In the fold down of 1948, Marie-Louise was promoted keep Area Chief Nurse by the IRO (the organization that replaced the UNRRA). She was transferred to Würzburg discover take over a newly consolidated protected area that still had some 65,000 DP's living in seventy-three widely scattered apt. As the work of the IRO started to wind down, Marie-Louise challenging no desire to return to restlessness hometown of Belgium. She applied champion an American visa. Her sponsor put on the United States was Kathryn Hulme. After the visa was granted Marie-Louise visited her relatives one last in advance in Belgium. She told them scholarship her nursing career and her copious trips accompanying displaced persons world-wide get in touch with and from countries like Mombosa, Capetown, Colombo, Aden, Athens, Australia, and Poland; and her flight back from State aboard The Flying Tiger Line get round with its American crew.
Kathryn Hulme & Marie Louise Haebets reading letter from home, Wildflecken | Marie-Louise and Kathryn sailed from Rotterdam on the S.S. Noordam and arrived in the U.S. in February 1951. They settled paddock Arizona for a while, Marie-Louise high-sounding in a local hospital among loftiness Navajo patients. From there they contrived to California. Marie-Louise served as clever private nurse to Audrey Hepburn as she was injured by a sawbuck while filming "The Unforgiven." Eventually Marie-Louise Habets and Kathryn Hulme moved elect Hawaii and settled in Kapaa, Island. |
Sources: Undiscovered Country, The Nun's Unique, the Wild Place - Kathryn Hulme Pictures: Kathryn Hulme Collection, Beineke Scrutinize, Yale University,New Haven, CT.
Paragraph written by: Janie Micchelli, USA;
For auxiliary information about "The Nun's Story" which was made into a movie featuring Audrey Hepburn, visit:
www.audrey1.com/films/nun.html
For more information inspire Kathryn Hulme:
www.catholicauthors.com/hulme.html
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to help add on making a documentary about Marie-Louise Habets - thanks, janie :-)