{"id":33943,"date":"2016-09-04T11:10:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T15:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=33943"},"modified":"2017-02-04T15:39:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T19:39:29","slug":"blessed-mary-stella-and-companions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/blessed-mary-stella-and-companions\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Mary Stella and Companions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CSFN-nuns-in-Corpus-Christi-procession-Nowo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-33944 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CSFN-nuns-in-Corpus-Christi-procession-Nowo-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"CSFN nuns in Corpus Christi procession Nowo\" width=\"392\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CSFN-nuns-in-Corpus-Christi-procession-Nowo-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CSFN-nuns-in-Corpus-Christi-procession-Nowo-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CSFN-nuns-in-Corpus-Christi-procession-Nowo.jpg 861w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a>Today is the feast day of Blessed Mary Stella and her ten companions. Members of the Congregation of Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth. It is a day to recall the supreme witness of love and patience and virtue. We honor the lives and the love shared by the Blessed Martyred Sisters of Nowogrodek who were executed by the Nazis on August 1, 1943, and beatified by Pope St. John Paul II on March 5, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Through their sacrifice of love, the lives of many were spared.<\/p>\n<p>We remember:<br \/>\nSr. Maria Stella (Adelaide) Mardosewicz, superior, 1888-1943<br \/>\nSr. Mary Imelda (Jadwiga) Zak, 1892-1943<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nSr. Mary Rajmunda (Anna) Kukolowicz, 1892-1943<br \/>\nSr. Maria Daniela (Eleanor) Jozwik, 1895-1943<br \/>\nSr. Maria Kanuta (Jozefa) Chrobot, 1896-1943<br \/>\nSr. Maria Gwidona (Helena) Cierpka, 1900-1943<br \/>\nSr. Maria Sergia (Julia) Rapiej, 1900-1943<br \/>\nSr. Maria Kanizja (Eugenia) Mackiewicz, 1904-1943<br \/>\nSr. Maria Felicyta (Paulina Borowik) 1905-1943<br \/>\nSr. Maria Heliodora (Leokadia) Matuszewska, 1906-1943<br \/>\nSr. Maria Boromea (Veronika) Narmontowicz, 1916-1943<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Photo (undated) shows some of the sisters during a Corpus Christi procession in Nowogrodek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the feast day of Blessed Mary Stella and her ten companions. Members of the Congregation of Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth. It is a day to recall the supreme witness of love and patience and virtue. We honor the lives and the love shared by the Blessed Martyred Sisters of Nowogrodek &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/blessed-mary-stella-and-companions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blessed Mary Stella and Companions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31887,3259],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34419,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33943\/revisions\/34419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}