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163. Probably Stanislava Kwietniewska, former ward of the sisters and a patient at
the sanatorium at the time.
164. Sister Faustina was in Tuberculosis Ward 1, which was about 70 steps from the
chapel.
165. Stanislava Kwietniewska (cf. 163).
166. Sister Faustina is probably praying for the intentions of Archbishop
Jalbrzykowski, Father Sopocko, and Father Andrasz.
167. A Eucharistic Congress was held from February 3 to 7 in Manila in the
Philippines.
168. Father Andrasz was Sister Faustina‟s spiritual director at the time, so it can be
supposed that the letter concerning permission for minor penitential practices was written to
him.
169. Probably Sister Faustina has Father Andrasz in mind, as he was her spiritual
director at the time, although the words of praise could also refer to Father Sopocko.
170. “Passion” (Polish Pasja) – a Lenten service to give worship to Christ‟s Passion.
Special Lenten songs Gorzkie Zale are sung during the service.
171. On the basis of the invocations that follow, Father Sopocko composed a Litany
to The Divine Mercy, correcting a few invocations and adding some of his own (See letter of
Fr. Sopocko, May 14, 1972).
172. As Sister Faustina‟s spiritual director, Father Sopocko had ordered her to
carefully underline in her diary everything that she thought came from God, and in particular
everything that related to the institution of the Feast of Mercy and the establishment of the
new community.
173. Sister Cornelia Trzaska died at Plock on February 15. She was born in 1888,
entered the community in 1905, and worked in the Congregation as a shoemaker.
174. Father Bonaventure Kadeja of the Piarist Order, Cracow, Pijarska Street. He
was born in 1906, ordained priest in 1932. In the religious life he had the duties of House
Superior, Counselor General, and Provincial. In 1965/66 he was a judge in the information
process.
175. Cf. footnote 65 and Sister Faustina‟s letter to her sisters Natalie and Wanda of
June 10, 1938 (Letter #296, 297).
176. Probably a prediction that was fulfilled under the German occupation, when
many priests secretly celebrated the Eucharist in private homes and basements, without
liturgical vestments, and even in concentration camps, wearing prison clothes.
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