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decorating the chapel with flowers, Sister Faustina probably wanted to put some in the
chaplain‟s quarters.
Rev. Peter Trojanczyk was born April 30, 1887 and was ordained priest on June 22,
1913. On March 7, 1941, he was arrested by the Germans and sent to the camp in
Dzialdow, where he was murdered that same year (Monthly Pastoral. Plock, nr. 9, 1949).
38. The wards were: Imelda, Edwarda, Ignasia, Margaret and Hedwig Owar (See A.
SF. And letter J. Owar). The first four have died. Hedwig Owar was a witness in the
information process.
The Act concerning the vision was written in Vilnius on November 28, 1934 and
signed by Sister Faustina, Sister Taida (who recorded Sister Faustina‟s statements), and
Imelda. Mother Irene, the superior of the house, verified its authenticity.
39. The Directresses of the Novitiate made their own handbook on the vows, based
on the work of Fr. Peter Cotelle, S.J., “A Catechism of Vows.” Each novice was to write the
questions and answers in her notebook and study them by heart.
40. In the Community of Our Lady of Mercy, sisters live in common rooms, several to
one room. The place occupied by each is separated from the others by a stable partition.
These partitioned places are called cells.
41. Sister Stanislaus Stepczynska, who was ill, was staying at the Plock house at the
time. Seeing that Sister Faustina was more recollected, meek and prayerful, she spied on
her and even checked her bed in search of extraordinary tools of penance (information
provided by Sister Christine Korzeniowska).
42. That is elsewhere in the diary. For a long time Sister Faustina did not take notes
of her experiences and of graces received. It was only at the explicit order of her confessor,
Father Sopocko, that she began to write down her experiences as they occurred, and also
earlier ones as she remembered them. After some time, she burned her notes. Father
Sopocko gives the following account: “When I was in the Holy Land for a few weeks, she
was persuaded by a supposed angel to burn the diary. As penance, I told her to reconstruct
the part destroyed. But in the meantime new experiences came, and she wrote down new
and old things alternately. Hence the lack of chronological order in the diary.”
43. There are indications that it was in the house in Zytnia Street in Warsaw. The
following senior mothers were there at the time: Mother Jane Bartkiewicz, Mother Margaret
Gimbutt, Mother Raphael Buczynska, Mother Michael Moraczewska, Superior General.
There is some probability that it was done by Mother Jane Bartkiewicz, who was very much
interested in the young sisters.
44. Perpetual vows. In the Congregation of Our Lady of Mercy, the Superior General,
after hearing her Council, either admits a professed sister to perpetual vows or dismisses her
after five years of temporary vows (Const.).
45. Sister Faustina was set at peace during a retreat conducted by Father Andrasz
from April 20 to April 30, 1933. He understood her and gave her sound advice on how to
proceed along the road of God‟s readings.
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