At Liège in Belgium, Blessed Marie Thérèse (Jeanne) Haze, virgin, who founded the Congregation of the Daughters of the Cross for the service of the infirm and the poor.
Lifespan: 1782–1876
Beatified: 21 April 1991 by Pope John Paul II
Memoria liturgica: 7 January
When the Son of God is revealed, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is (1 Jn 3:2)
Marie Thérèse Jeanne Haze was born in Liège on 27 February 1782 into a prosperous and devout family. She was soon forced to emigrate to escape the dangers of the French Revolution.
After the death of both her parents and the marriage of some of her sisters, she remained alone with another sister, Ferdinande. Unable to enter religious life owing to the anticlerical laws of the time, the two began to lead a life of retirement at home.
Four years later, they asked their parish priest whether they might take charge of a free school; other young women joined them. In this way there arose the Daughters of the Holy Cross of Liège, of which Jeanne Haze became superior general under the name of Mother Maria Teresa of the Sacred Heart.
She died at nearly a hundred years of age on 7 January 1876, but her cause of beatification was introduced in 1911.
Following a miracle attributed to her intercession, approved on 22 January 1991, she was beatified by Saint John Paul II on 21 April 1991.
Her mortal remains have been venerated since 21 April 1993 in the chapel of the motherhouse of the Daughters of the Holy Cross, at Rue Hors-Château 49 in Liège.