Maria Karłowska
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Maria Karłowska (4 September 1865 – 24 March 1935) – in religious Maria of Jesus Crucified – was a Polish Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Sisters of the Divine Shepherd of Divine Providence.[1][2] Karłowska worked with poor and abandoned people with an emphasis on girls and also tried to aid prostitutes avoid such a life and build another kind of life so used her order to reach out to such people to render assistance.
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Maria Karłowska | |
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Religious | |
Born | (1865-09-04)4 September 1865 Karłowo, Grand Duchy of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia |
Died | 24 March 1935(1935-03-24) (aged 69) Pniewite, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Second Polish Republic |
Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
Beatified | 6 June 1997, Zakopane, Poland by Pope John Paul II |
Feast | 6 June |
Attributes | Religious habit |
Patronage | Sisters of the Divine Shepherd of Divine Providence |
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Her beatification cause culminated in Pope John Paul II presiding over her beatification on 6 June 1997 while on his apostolic visitation to Poland.