Ida Friederike Görres

Ida Friederike Görres was born on 2 December 1901 in western Bohemia on her family's estate in Ronsperg (today called Poběžovice), where she grew up.

Görres attended Austrian covenant schools, first at the College of the Sacred Heart in Pressbaum near Vienna and then with the Mary Ward Sisters in St. Pölten.

[1] She became involved in the German Catholic Youth Movement around 1925, acting as the federal leader of the girls and writing articles for the magazine Die Schildgenossen.

"[6] Görres's friends included Werner Bergengruen, Maria Birgitta zu Münster, OSB, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Walter Nigg, Alfons Rosenberg, and Gustav Siewerth.

Part three, The Cloister and the World, is about discerning one's vocation in life;[14] Görres wrote this one in the form of fictional letters to young women.

[15] Görres is best known in the English speaking world for her 1944 study of Thérèse of Lisieux, Das Verborgene Antlitz - translated as The Hidden Face.

The British cookery writer and celebrity chef Delia Smith named the book as an influence on her Roman Catholicism.

Others are drawing on her work for topics relevant today, such as an article in 2024 by Canadian John Paul Gamage on Görres's insights into the importance of celibacy for the Catholic priesthood.