Blessed Marcelina Darowska (January 16, 1827 — January 5, 1911) was a Polish nun, who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1996. She was inspired by the Virgin Mary to cofound the Congregation of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, an religious order today active in Poland, Belarus and Ukraine.
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Childhood and Marriage
Marcelina Kotowicz was born in Szulaki, Ukraine. Her family were landowners. Already as a child she was very religeous. As her father could not understand this, before his death he obtained her promise, that she would marry and found a family. In 1849 she married Karol Darowski, but she decided to sanctify her marriage "by living only in God and for God". Her husband died in 1852 died, leaving her with the two children. A year later her son died too and than she confessed: "The way of the world was not chosen for me by God's will; the way of the convent was, indeed, my destiny".[1]
Nuns' life
In 1854 she travelled to Rome for reasons of health and met there Fr Hieronim Kajsiewicz, a Resurrectionist (CR) who became her spiritual director. Through him she met Josephine Karska, who was thinking of founding a religious community dedicated to the overall formation of women. Their mutual work - the Congregation of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary united Marcelina and Josephine in sincere friendship. For years, however, Josephine was sick with typhus and died in 1860. Marcelina thus became the Superior of the new religious family, which numbered no more than four. In 1863 she moved the community to her homeland, and at Jazlowiec, in the Archdiocese of Lviv, she opened her first school for girls, which soon became an important spiritual and cultural centre.
Marcelina undertook the work of educating women in the conviction that on it depends the rebirth of the family, which is the foundation of a morally healthy society. Among her principles for the formation of her sisters and students, she stressed the following: the primacy of God over everything, truth, mutual trust and unselfishness. She also offered effective help to the poor, desiring that tuition-free elementary schools be established at every convent. During her 50 years of Superior of the congregation, she opened seven convents with formation institutes and schools for children.
She died on 5 January 1911.
Meaning
In 1904, the Polish writer Henry Sienkiewicz wrote of her: "Praise for your wise work and honour to your merit and goodness". Marcelina answered, saying: "I don't look at the results of our work. They don't belong to us. If they exist, they belong to God for the good of our beloved country, which is torn apart".
From article Yazlovets
In 1863 blessed Marcelina Darowska established the monastery of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the ruined castle donated for this purpose. The sisters ministered in education first in Yazlovets itself and then creating a network of rural elementary schools. The Statue of Immaculately Conceived Mother of God, consecrated by saint archbishop Sigismund Felix Feliński in 1883 in the monasteries chapel and in 1939 crowned by the Cardinal Primate of Poland August Hlond with a crown conferred by the Holy Father Servant of GodPius XII, soon became known for graces granted through the intercession of theBlessed Virgin.
References
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External Weblinks
- Congregations website about Marcelina Darowska (in English)
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