Posted On 2015-01-30 In Schoenstatters

Hildegard C. Hug, Graphic Artist and Co-Founder of Schoenstatt-TV, died unexpectedly

mda. Those who attended the early Mass in the Original Shrine on 29 January 2015 were the first to hear the news of the unexpected death – possibly as a result of a heart attack – of Hildegard C. Hug, graphic artist and co-founder of Schoenstatt-tv. Fr Egon M. Zillekens, who was the celebrant at this Mass, which he offered up for her, was informed by Hildegard’s brother, Johannes M. Hug, a Brother of Mary.

 

Many in Schoenstatt have got used to seeing Hildegard behind one of the Schoenstatt-tv cameras at every event. Together with the rest of her team she made an essential contribution to enabling the whole world to see the original Schoenstatt “live” and up close via the internet (Schoenstatt-tv.de).

When she, her sister and a growing team of collaborators began live transmissions from the Original Shrine and other areas of Schoenstatt, it was the first time that the great majority of Schoenstatters were able to take part in events, Masses and celebrations in and around the Original Shrine as they happened. After we have experienced what was practically a continuous live transmission via TV and internet of the centenary celebrations of the covenant of love, we need to recall that Hildegard Hug was one of the pioneers of this media option. Through it everyone can now be connected with the Original Shrine, which has become our common home and specific source of grace, and without which we can neither exist nor work, nor can we be the Family of our Father, or an Apostolic Movement in the service of the Church and society.

Schoenstatt and many of its communities owe a great deal to Hildegard, not only because of Schoenstatt-tv. As a graphic artist she designed many things, often on a voluntary basis, for the Covenant Home, the Original Shrine and its website, and much more. She also designed and did the layout for many books, posters, postcards and brochures. As Fr Francisco Sobral wrote in the information sent out to the community of Schoenstatt Father, “We will always be reminded of her by the entrance to the Father House, to which she made an essential artistic contribution, as well as the brochure in three languages introducing the Father House.:

We thank you most sincerely, Hildegard Hug.

Let us pray in these days for her and her whole family.

Original: Spanish. Translation: Mary Cole, Manchester, UK

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