Zofia Czeska
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Zofia Czeska-Maciejowska (1584 – 1 April 1650) was a Polish religious sister and the founder of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.[1] Czeska was widowed following her call into the religious life.[2][3] Her beatification was celebrated on 9 June 2013.
Life
Zofia Czeska-Maciejowska was born in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1584 as one of nine children to Mateusz Maciejowska and Katarzyna Lubowiecka; one sister younger than her was Anna.[3][2]
Czeska married in 1600 to Jan Czeska and was widowed in 1626 childless at which point her religious calling flourished. and a man kidnapped her demanding the two be married; she refused and the man married her little sister Anna.
Czeska died on 1 April 1650 and her remains were interred in the basilica.[1] Her order continues to operate in both her native Poland and in the Ukraine. In 2008 there were 126 religious in 18 houses and the order was aggregated to the Order of Friars Minor on 19 April 1938.
Beatification
The beatification process opened in a diocesan process in Kraków on 1 April 1995 and concluded its business on 20 November 1997; during the process the formal assent to the cause was granted under
On 27 June 2011 she was proclaimed to be
References
- ^ a b c "Blessed Zofia Czeska-Maciejowska". Saints SQPN. 1 April 2015. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
- ^ a b c "Blessed Zofia Czeska-Maciejowska". Santi e Beati. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ a b c "Servant of God Mother Zofia Czeska". All Saints & Martyrs. 2014. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
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