Terezija Dush

Terezija Dush, sister Marija Hozana (10 September 1845 – 16 August 1870), was a Venetian Slovene herder, servant, nanny, and Marian seeress.

Childhood She was born on 10 September 1845 into a poor Slovene family in Porzùs near Udine. Her mother was the farmer Katarina Grimac (1806 – c. 1856) and her father the farmer Jože Dush (1803 – c. 1856). Terezija was the youngest of seven children. She did not attend school but helped her parents with work and tended the family cow.

Apparitions In 1855 a cholera epidemic raged in Porzùs.

Work and death Around 1856 both of her parents died, and she was admitted to a girls’ orphanage in Udine run by the Sisters of Providence and the priest Luigi Scrosoppi, who as latter declared a Roman Catholic saint. In 1886 a painting of the apparition was installed in the chapel.

The Mother of God of Porzùs is also known as Marija žanjica (Mary the Reaper or Mary with the Sickle) and is depicted holding a sickle, which, according to Terezija's account, she held at the first apparition.