Maria Ida Fourier (Wellen, 1797 - Sint-Truiden, 1869) founded in 1841 Sancta Maria, the current psychiatric institution in Sint-Truiden. biography

Her father Ludovicus was sentenced to death in 1791 by Patriot of the Liège Revolution by the Munsterbilzen reading room. Her mother Maria Barbara Vanschoenwinkel gathered all her cents for the exceptional grace of the prince bishop of Liège. Her aunt Anna Maria Vanschoenwinkel bought her husband-Bokkenrijder Lambrechts Jan in 1776 from the schavot. The men continued to be silently silent. Judge Robertus de Bellefroid was involved in the dozens of death sentences against Bokkerijders. Ida grew up in Wellen. After 1820 she became a kitchen girl in Sint-Truiden with the family Robert de Bellefroid, son of the said judge. Robert had acquired the domain of the Begarden in the French period next to the destroyed Abbey of Saint-Truiden. He was married to the daughter of Clenx's steward of Alden Biesen. During the Belgian Independence struggle in 1830, Robert died. Maria Ida married his son, who died shortly thereafter. The other son died later. She thus possessed the important legacy. Holy Maria Santa Maria: Ida Fourier Klok

Kanunnik Peter Joseph Joseph Triest from Ghent had always been poignant to send his "Sisters of Love" to Saint-Truiden. However, when the wealthy widow, who was married to city secretary Vanswijgenhove in the meantime, donated her fortune and grounds to the Ghent Kanunniken Triest and De Decker was immediately started with large structures: "An Institution for Miserable Women and Being". This to the wish of Maria Ida, whose subversive motive coincides with the fate of 28 widows and 120 creatures in Wellen.

She thought that the Sisters received a bottle of wine at midday on high days. Her revolutionary family had once plundered the Pastor's wine cellar in Wellen and his girlfriend had fled in the arms of neighbor Neven. Their son Monseigneur Neven, right hand of Liege's bishop Vanbommel, was sitting next to the Ida boxing driver daughter at the opening of the institution in 1841.

On the debris of the Trudo Abbey, a monumental episcopal seminar is commended and all the seminars, teachers and sisters moved across the new border from Abbey Rolduc. This enormous city-center renovation was led by the renowned Ghent architect Roelandt, and there are elements for suspicion of the following: The in love King Willem I visited Countess Henriëtte d'Oultremont de Wégimont, close friend of Rolduc, several times in Duras (St-Truiden ). Kanunnik Triest accepted both King Willem I and King Leopold I the predicate Royal for his institutions. Pieter de Decker was parliamentarian and later prime minister.

Currently, hundreds of psychiatric patients stay in a new building in Melveren, town of Sint-Truiden. The ancient bronze tower bell, with the stichting stichting, is now part of a monument on the central lawn.

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