Marcelina Darowska

Blessed Marcelina Darowska , was a Polish nun who was beatified by the then Pope John Paul II at Saint Peters Square in Rome in the year 1996. She was inspired by the Virgin Mary to cofound the Congregation of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, an active religious order in Poland, Belarus and the Ukraine.

Marcelina Kotowicz was born in Szulaki, a part of Poland that was controlled by the Russians at the time. Her parents, Jan and Maksymilia Kotowicz, were wealthy landowners. She attended a school in Odessa for three years, before working on her fathers farm.

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