Fey, Clara

(1815–94)

   Order Founder.

   Fey was born in Aachen, Germany. In 1837 she opened a school for the poor in Aachen and this became a religious community, the Sisters of the Poor Child Jesus, in 1844. For the next fifty years, until her death, she served as Superior although she and her sisters were forced to leave Germany during the Kulturkampf. The order is dedicated to the education of the poor and the abandoned and has spread through Western Europe to the Americas and Indonesia.

   J. Solzbacher (ed.), Heaven on Earth, translated by M. Colman (1958);

   I. Watterot, The Life of Mother Clare Fey (1923).