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Róża Czacka: A life of service to the blind

09.09.2021 22:00
Róża Czacka, a blind countess who founded a religious order and a Society for the Care of the Blind, is due to be beatified in Warsaw on Sunday in a single ceremony with former Polish religious leader Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński.
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Mother Róża Czacka.
Mother Róża Czacka.PAP/The Picture Art Collection/Alamy Stock Photo

In an interview with Radio Poland, Jonathan Luxmoore, a prominent writer on religious affairs in Poland and Central Europe, said that “Mother Czacka’s model of sanctiness and heroism was that of complete, devoted charity and service to the poor.”

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