๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ฑ ๐ฆ๐๐ฒ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐ฎ ลฤ
๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฎ (6 January 1914- 7 November 1946)
"What the world is in particular need of today is the credible witness of people...capable of opening the hearts ๐ and minds of many to the desire for God and for true life." - ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ข ๐๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ช 15
Servant of God Stefania Lacka, a journalist ๐ฐ and teacher ๐ฉ๐ซ known as "the earthly guardian angel ๐ผ of Auschwitz," baptized children in the Nazi death camps, saved many from the crematorium, and shored up morale among her fellow prisoners with unswerving kindness and faith.
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https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefania_%C5%81%C4%85cka
https://gab.com/adagioforstrings/posts/115506051817246930
https://truthsocial.com/group/catholics-on-truth/posts/115506041984309315
On April 16, 1941, the Nazis arrested ⛓️ Lacka and several of her associates. Under torture in prison, she refused to reveal the names of colleagues who had not been detained. She was transferred along with sixty other women on April 27, 1942, to Auschwitz and soon fell ill with typhus ๐ค . After recovering she was assigned, partly due to her fluency in German , to the camp infirmary ⚕️ ๐ฉ⚕️ ๐ฅ .
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"'ลladem zimnych serc' - artykuล sล. B. Stefanii ลฤ ckiej" "'In the footsteps of cold hearts' - article by B. Stefania ลฤ cka"
There, Lacka's access to inmate files allowed her to surreptitiously remove a number of names from the crematorium lists. She was able to write to the families of others ๐ ✉️. And for the infants she couldn't save, before they were killed along with their mothers she baptized as many as she could, in secret and under penalty of death. But perhaps Lacka's greatest gift was the spirit of fortitude and faith with which she encouraged everyone around her to hold fast, to be kind, and to pray๐.
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https://biblos.pl/glowna/4457-kolorowanka-stefania-lacka-.html
At the conclusion of the war, Lacka was liberated from the death camp and left with five companions on January 23, 1945. She returned to her family home, attended daily Mass ⛪ ๐ท ๐ซ , and attempted to re-integrate into normal life. Determined to continue her studies, she enrolled in the Jagiellonian University in Krakow with the intention of studying Polish philology. Weakened however by malnutrition, physical abuse, and the emotional trauma from her years in the camps, she died of tuberculosis ๐ฆ on November 7, 1946, at the age of thirty-two.
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Her cause for canonization was opened in August 2021. "Stefania Lacka was distinguished for her high degree of the virtues of faith, hope, and love, and the moral virtues," wrote Bishop Andrzej Jez of Tarnow. "From the day of her funeral until now, her private cult has been growing."
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https://www.kurierdabrowski.pl/stefania-lacka-cicha-bohaterka-powisla/
Lacka has been commemorated in Poland by poetry and documentary film ๐ฌ . At the Basilica of Our Lady of Consolation in Pasierbiec, a village outside Krakow, in 2010 the parishioners dedicated an outdoor Stations of the Cross ✝️ with figures from recent Polish Catholic history. At the Eighth Station, where Jesus traditionally speaks to the women of Jerusalem, he now meets Stanislawa Leszczynska, a Polish midwife who delivered over three thousand babies ๐ถ at Auschwitz - and Servant of God Stefania Lacka.
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"Pasierbiec w HD - Sanktuarium i Droga Krzyลผowa" "Pasierbiec in HD - Sanctuary and Way of the Cross"
https://cudownezrodelka.pl/miejsce/pasierbiec/
A prayer for private recitation:
Almighty and eternal God, grant me the spirit of faith, hope, and love with which You filled the Servant of God Stefania ลฤ cka, and grant, through her intercession, that by living according to Your commandments and the Gospel, I may become increasingly like Christ. Through her participation in the Savior's Passion, grant me the grace for which I humbly and trustingly pray...
God, source of holiness, grant that the Servant of God Stefania may be numbered among the blessed. ๐
https://parafiazaczarnie.pl/proces-beatyfikacyjny-slugi-bozej-stefanii-lackiej-15-ix-2023-r/
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