Thursday, Aug. 1, marks the 70th anniversary of the martyrdom of Bl. Stella and her 10 Companions. On that morning in 1943, Sr. M. Stella (Adela) Mardosewicz, CSFN, and her 10 companion CSFN sisters were executed by the Nazi regime and buried in a common grave outside Nowogródek, then in Nazi-occupied Poland, now part of Belarus. In the wake of mass arrests the previous month in Nowogródek and executions throughout that summer, Sr. Mary Stella and her companions prayed: O God, if sacrifice of life is needed, accept it from us who are free from family obligations and spare those who have wives and children.
Sr. Stella and her 10 companions were beatified by Bl. John Paul II on March 5, 2000. Their feast day is Sept. 4. The Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth (CSFN) invite you to pray with us our prayer to these CSFN martyrs:
O most blessed Trinity, we praise and thank you for the example of Blessed Mary Stella and her 10 Companions, Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, who by imitating Jesus Christ, offered themselves as a sacrifice of love.
God of mercy and compassion, through the merits of their martyrdom and by their intercession, grant us the grace we humbly ask… (insert intention here) …so that like them, we may witness with our lives to the presence of the Kingdom of God’s love and extend it to the human family throughout the world. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Blessed Martyred Sisters of Nowogródek, pray for us.
Sr. Stella and her 10 companions were beatified by Bl. John Paul II on March 5, 2000. Their feast day is Sept. 4. The Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth (CSFN) invite you to pray with us our prayer to these CSFN martyrs:
O most blessed Trinity, we praise and thank you for the example of Blessed Mary Stella and her 10 Companions, Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, who by imitating Jesus Christ, offered themselves as a sacrifice of love.
God of mercy and compassion, through the merits of their martyrdom and by their intercession, grant us the grace we humbly ask… (insert intention here) …so that like them, we may witness with our lives to the presence of the Kingdom of God’s love and extend it to the human family throughout the world. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Blessed Martyred Sisters of Nowogródek, pray for us.
