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142. Father Sopocko, in his letter of Oct. 5, 1936, asked Sister Faustina for the texts
of the Chaplet and the Novena to The Divine Mercy.
143. The following sisters came to take their perpetual vows then: Sister Boleslaus
Domagalska, b. 1902; Sister Cyprian Rzad, b. 1903; Sister Damiana Ziolek, b. 1909; Sister
Marceline Kobrzyniecka, b. 1906; Sister Pancratia Nalewajko, b 1908; Sister Sebastiana
Gabinowska (1905-1942). It is difficult to say which of the sisters confided to Sister Faustina,
but it can be supposed it was Sister Sebastiana Gabinowska, who often went through
periods of depression. She even asked her superiors to postpone the date of her perpetual
vows. Soon after perpetual profession she showed symptoms of mental illness. She was
sent to the mental hospital al Kobierzyn near Cracow. She shared the fate of other patients
during the occupation: they were taken away and executed by the Germans. The death took
place probably at the end of June 1942 (A. SMDM-C and D).
144. In this case the preacher was Father Ladislaus Wojton, S.J., who from October
20 to 29, 1936 conducted the retreat before the vows.
145 Probably Sister Gertrude Budzinska (1875-1966), who shared a room with Sister
Faustina for some time.
146. After novitiate the sisters take temporary vows for one year. These are repeated
for five years. Then perpetual vows are taken. Sister Faustina took her temporary vows
(which she calls annual vows) on April 30, 1928.
147. This was a letter written on September 21, 1936, in which Father Sopocko
informed Sister Faustina about the developments regarding the spreading of the devotion to
The Divine Mercy and the founding of the new community.
148. Probably a vision of the house of the Congregation of the Most Merciful
Redeemer at Mysliborz, The community was founded by Father Sopocko after Sister
Faustina‟s death. The Mysliborz sisters conduct the catechesis of children.
149. Sister Faustina probably made a mistake about her age here; as she herself
writes in the Diary, she received the grace in the Octave of Corpus Christi in 1925. As she
was born in 1905, she was 20, not 18 in 1925.
150. Sister David – Antonina Cedro. She was born September 17, 1898, and entered
the Congregation of servants of the Sacred Heart (Polish Sercanki or Pelczarki), founded by
Bishop Joseph Pelczar in 1894. Sisters from the Congregation worked at the Pradnik
hospital.
151. Sister Felicia – Jane Zakowiecka. Born in 1900, she entered the Congregation
in 1926 and made perpetual vows in 1934. She was the house econom at Vilnius and
Cracow, and then became house superior at Rabka, and finally at Derdy. She met with the
Saint at Vilnius and later, from 1936 to 1938, in Cracow. She was a witness at the
information process of Sister Faustina. She died at the Wroclaw house on November 7,
1975.
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