The Eleven Nuns of Nowogrodek
![[Painting depicting the execution of the Eleven Nuns of Nowogrodek]](nun12.jpg) |
Adam Styka (1890-1959) a member of a distinguished family of
Polish painters, created the oil canvas of the execution, a copy of which
is reproduced here.
This painting, which dates from the spring of 1948, was transferred to Rome, to the headquarters of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth in 1965. A copy of it can be found in the provincial house of the Sisters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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| Sister Maria Stella, Superior | Adelaide Mardosiewicz | (1888-1943) |
| Sister Mary Imelda | Jadwiga Zak | (1892-1943) |
| Sister Mary Rajmunda | Anna Kukulowicz | (1892-1943) |
| Sister Maria Daniela | Eleanor Juzwik | (1895-1943) |
| Sister Maria Kanuta | Jozefa Chrobot | (1896-1943) |
| Sister Maria Gwidona | Helena Cierpka | (1900-1943) |
| Sister Maria Sergia | Julia Rapieg | (1900-1943) |
| Sister Maria Kanizja | Eugenia Mackiewicz | (1904-1943) |
| Sister Maria Felicyta | Paulina Borowik | (1905-1943) |
| Sister Maria Heliodora | Leokadia Matustzewska | (1906-1943) |
| Sister Maria Boromea | Veronika Narmuntowicz | (1916-1943) |
On September 18, 1991 the canonization process for the eleven sisters was officially opened and, on June 28, 1999, the Zenit News Agency announced that Pope John Paul II had proclaimed that they were martyrs. The same pope beatified them on with a group of thirty-three others on Sunday, March 5, 2000. That ceremony is portrayed in these pictures taken by Siobhan O'Neil who witnessed the beatification.. |
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These images taken from the personal collection of the Rev. Vincent A. Lapomarda, S.J.
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