Түркия мен Египеттегі кедейлерге көмектескен әйгілі қаһарманы – Сœur Emmanuelle

Catholic religious sister

Emmanuelle Cinquin, NDS (born 16 November 1908 – 20 October 2008), widely known just as Sœur Emmanuelle, was a religious sister of both Belgian and French origins, noted for her involvement in working for the plight of the poor in Turkey and Egypt. She was honoured with Egyptian citizenship in 1991.

She was born Madeleine Cinquin in Brussels, Belgium, the daughter of a French father, Jules Cinquin, and a Belgian mother, Berthe Lenssens. Her parents were wealthy lingerie manufacturers; their background was from Saint Omer. Her paternal grandmother, Laure Mélanie Dreyfus, was the daughter of an Alsatian Jew named Emmanuel Moïse Augustin Dreyfus and a Christian mother. He was born in Wissembourg, Bas Rhin, and started the family lingerie business. At the age of six she saw her father drown. Madeleine Cinquin was educated at the Sorbonne, earning a degree in philosophy. In 1929, she became a religious sister in the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion, where she took the religious name Emanuelle. In the 1930s, Sr. Emmanuelle started teaching at the Notre Dame de Sion High School in Istanbul, where she lived until the 1960s, with teaching assignments by her congregation of several years in Tunis and Alexandria in between. In 1971, Sr. Emmanuelle witnessed the impoverished conditions of the trash collectors in Cairo, Egypt, and decided to live among them. She remained there until 1993, when she returned to France. It was upon her return that she gained the status of a media sensation in France, as she was well received by audiences and talk show hosts. She died in her sleep from natural causes, less than four weeks from celebrating her 100th birthday.

Les Amis de Soeur Emmanuelle ("The Friends of Sister Emmanuelle") is a charitable organization based in Brussels. French Singer Calogero dedicated a song to her named "Yalla", which means "move on, move forward" in Arabic, something she was famous for saying. The song was sung to her for her 98th birthday. In 2018, for the 10th anniversary of her death, the city of Paris decided to name a street after her. The Allée Soeur Emmanuelle is situated on the boulevard Raspail, between the allée Claude Cahun Marcel Moore and the boulevard du Montparnasse, where are the headquarters of Congregation of Our Lady of Sion.