Bl. Maria Karlowska Biography
Bl. Maria Karlowska Biography, Feast Day, Date of Birth, Country of Birth, Profession, Place of Work, Date of Death, Place of Death, Beatification Date, Canonization Date |
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| Date of Birth | September 4 1865 |
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| Country of Birth | Poland of Europe |
| Matrimony/Holy Orders | Blesseds who were Nuns/Sisters |
| Profession | Nun |
| Place of Work | Poland |
| Date of Death | March 24 1935 |
| Place of Death | Poland |
| Feast Day | April 6 |
| Beatification | Beatified by Pope John Paul II on June 6 1997 |
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Blessed’s Biography
Blessed Maria Karlowska was born on September 4, 1865, in the village of Slopow. At seventeen, she lost both her parents. Maria took a tailor-made course and then worked at her sister’s tailoring. It was during this time she meets a prostitute and put her soul into helping them.
In 1894, she started a home “The Good Shepherd”, a house for prostitutes in Poznan and founded a congregation to run it. In the same year, Maria founded a monastery for the “shepherd sisters”, who had the Good Shepherd as her role model.
The monastery’s motto was “to look for and save those who have gone astray”. Maria died on March 24, 1935, in the monastery that the sisters had in Pniewite. She was buried in Jablonowo Pomorskie at the congregation’s mother’s house. Her 1997 congregation had 240 sisters.
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