Okamura Fuku
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Okamura Fuku | |
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岡村ふく | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | June 3, 1899 Kyobashi Ward, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan |
| Died | April 26, 1982 (aged 82) |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Christianity |
| Denomination | Roman Catholicism |
| Order | Missionary Sisters of St. John the Evangelist |
Okamura Fuku (Japanese: 岡村ふく; June 3, 1899 – April 26, 1982), also known as Mother Helen Theresia, was a Japanese Roman Catholic nun born in the Empire of Japan.[1] In 1944 she was the co-founder, with Fr. Vincent Totsuka Bunkyō (1892–1939, Bunkei Totsuka in some sources), of the Missionary Sisters of St. John the Evangelist, and Sakuramachi hospital.[2][3] She was listed as the director in the early 1970s.[4] Louis Massignon reported meeting her and her congregation in 1959 when he visited Sakuramachi hospital in Tokyo, and she is listed in his correspondence.[5] In 1963, when she was mother superior, she received a national medal for her work with developmentally disabled people, and her role in founding Sakuramachi hospital with Fr. Totsuka.[3]
