Germanic and Frisian background’s influence. Every new year started with a prayer in Catharina's journals. Here is her journal entry of the beginning of the year 1727: Here begins again in the name of The Lord the year 1727 Oh Lord, it is again that I was sent for this purpose by the way of Your Godly providence to help my fellow men. So give me then again with this new year new force and strength in my body in my great old age…. It can be observed that religion played an important role in her profession. She believed that God gifted her with this talent of midwifery, and she must honor it by helping others with it. “Through her voice we can hear the seriousness with which she and many others undertook their vocation.” Notes References Archives municipales de Grenoble, FF 46 (19 octobre 1755) (folio 359v°-360v°). Eccles, Audrey. “Mother and Child Were Saved: The Memoirs (1693–1740) of the Frisian Midwife Catharina Schrader.” Medical History 32.4 (1988). J, Beal. "Catharina Schrader: A Midwife of 18th-Century Friesland." Midwifery Today with International Midwife: 45-7. Lippi, Donatella. “Witchcraft, Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe.” Archives of the History & Philosophy of Medicine. 2012. Marland, Hilary, ed. The Art of Midwifery: Early Modern Midwives in Europe. Routledge, 2005. 256. Print. Rueff, Jakob. Frontispiece to De Conceptu et Generatione Hominis. 1554. Schama, Simon. The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age. Berkeley: U of California, 1988. Print. Schrader, C. G., and Hilary Marland. Mother and Child Were Saved: The Memoirs (1693-1740) of the Frisian Midwife Catharina Schrader. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987. Print. Simonton, Deborah. Women in European Culture and Society : a sourcebook. Routledge, 2013. Wiesner-Hanks, Merry. Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. External links http://www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/beal_schrader.asp https://web.archive.org/web/20160305012931/https://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/analyzing/accounts/schraderintro.html http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/Dutch-Colonies/2000-04/0955309258 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304024935/http://www.catharinaschraderstichting.com/indexcssenglish1.htm 1656 births 1746 deaths People from Bentheim German midwives Dutch science writers Dutch women writers Women science writers