When Nuns Perished During Adoration in Wartime Warsaw, White Doves Rose Into the Sky

When nuns perished during adoration in wartime Warsaw, white doves rose into the sky

On Aug. 6, the feast of the Transfiguration, one of the commanders asked the sisters to open the convent for use as a military base.

White doves rose into the sky when nuns perished during adoration in wartime Warsaw - The Dialog

WARSAW, Poland — “Apparently, it is God’s will that we die here,” said Mother Janina Byszewska, the superior of the Benedictine Nuns of the Most Blessed Sacrament community, which found itself in the midst of the fighting of the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944. Shortly thereafter, 34 nuns, four priests and a thousand civilians died under the rubble of their own convent. “People ask us if our sisters have been beatified,” Mother Maria Blandyna, th…

When nuns perished during adoration in wartime Warsaw, white doves rose into the sky - The Leaven Catholic Newspaper

"Apparently, it is God's will that we die here," said Mother Janina Byszewska, the superior of the Benedictine Nuns of the Most Blessed Sacrament community, which found itself in the midst of the fighting of the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944. The post When nuns perished during adoration in wartime Warsaw, white doves rose into the sky appeared first on The Leaven Catholic Newspaper.