Blessed Natalia Tulasiewicz
Martyr (
1945 Anno Domini A.D.) Feast: 31 March
Natalia Tulasiewicz, a young Polish teacher 
& Catholic laywoman, felt deeply called to serve God in the world. Breaking off a long-term engagement, she wrote, "It seems to me that I am on the path to a new era in my life…Now I love life more than ever before. I have always loved it in God; today I desire in the fullest sense to live in God!"
With the German 
invasion in 1939 A.D. , Natalia 's life changed abruptly. With an hour's notice, her family was ordered to vacate their home in Poznan. Hurriedly, she scribbled a note to the Germans who would occupy her home, imploring them to water the plants 
she eventually found work in Krakow, where she engaged in clandestine educational & religious activities 
"Only here do I fully realize...how important it is to go outside & fill in the gap between a saint in a monastery & a layperson outside...Let us carry the holiness in our souls to the streets!" 
In 1943 A.D. she volunteered to accompany other Polish women sent to Germany to perform heavy labor 
Though she hoped to be a missionary among her fellow deportees, she was arrested by the Gestapo , tortured & sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp 
In prison Natalia continued to offer her spiritual witness, until 31 March 1945 A.D., two days before the liberation of the camp, when she was sent to the gas chamber. She was beatified in 1999 A.D.
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"I have the courage to become a saint. Only holiness is the fullest form of love 
& so I don't just want but must become a saint, a modern saint, a theocratic humanist" 
-Blessed Natalia Tulasiewicz
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