About Hildegard Burjan
Lived 1883 – 1933 (aged 50). Hildegard Burjan was an Austrian politician.
Hildegard Lea Burjan (née Hildegard Freund; 30 January 1883 – 11 June 1933) was an Austrian politician and convert from Judaism to the Roman Catholic Church. She founded the Sisterhood of Caritas Socialis. Burjan set up several organizations for the promotion of women's rights and for the rights of all workers and their families and this even saw her elected to the Austrian Parliament where she served until her retirement due to ill health.
A beatification process for Hildegard Burjan commenced under Pope John Paul II in 1982. Pope Benedict XVI beatified her in 2012; Cardinal Angelo Amato presided over the celebration on the pope's behalf.
Life Hildegard Freund was born to non-practicing Jewish parents in the German Empire in 1883 as the second-born to Abraham and Berta Freund.
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Austrian politician and blessed (1883-1933)
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Hildegard Burjan was born on 30 January 1883 in Görlitz.
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Hildegard Burjan died on 11 June 1933 in Vienna.
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Hildegard Burjan was a politician.
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Hildegard Burjan was Austrian.
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