A common expression summed up the place of women in German society in the 1900s: Kinder, Küche, Kirche or “Children, Kitchen, Church.” Such expectations did nothing to stop Hildegard Burjan, a laywoman with chronic health problems, from becoming socially and politically active during the World War I era. With God’s help, Hildegard saw what she called “the distress of the times” and responded with love.