Blessed Maria Stella Of The Most Blessed Sacrament

Blessed Adela Mardosewicz

Also known as: Maria Stella Mardosewicz; Sister Maria Stella of the Most Blessed Sacrament

Blessed

Post-Congregation

Feast Day

1-Aug

Born

14 December 1888 in Kachanoviche, Nesvizh (a.k.a. Ciasnówka, Nieswiez), Minskaya voblasts’, Poland (now in Belarus) as Adela Mardosewicz

Died

Machine-gunned by firing squad on 1 August 1943 by the Gestapo about three miles outside Novogrudok (Nowogródek), Hrodzyenskaya voblasts’, in Nazi occupied Belarus; buried on the site of the execution in a common grave; one of their surviving sisters, Maria Malgorzata Banas, located the grave on 19 March 1945 and tended to it until her death in 1966; relics re-interred in a common sarcophagus in the chapel of the Novograd Farny Church (the Church of the Transfiguration, also known as Biala Fara or the White Church)

Beatified

5 March 2000 by Pope John Paul II in Rome, Italy

Venerated

28 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)

Biography

Blessed Adela Mardosewicz, also known as Maria Stella Mardosewicz or Sister Maria Stella of the Most Blessed Sacrament, was born on 14 December 1888 in Kachanoviche, Nesvizh (also known as Ciasnówka, Nieswiez), Minskaya voblasts’, Poland (now in Belarus) as Adela Mardosewicz. She dedicated her life to the service of others and became a remarkable figure in the Catholic Church.