Open life church7/24/2023 ![]() After graduating with honors, Stanisława knelt in a church and consecrated her work as a midwife to the Blessed Mother, vowing that if ever she lost a baby she would give up midwifery.Īfter her return to Lodz, Stanisława began delivering babies (while herself giving birth to two more sons). This academic endeavor required her to leave her children behind for two years while she attended school in Warsaw-a rather shocking choice in Poland in 1920. Stanisława already had two children when she began midwifery school. Her firstborn was born months early his survival seemed miraculous to Stanisława, who began to wonder whether she might be able to serve women and babies in similar circumstances. There in Lodz she finished high school, then married at age twenty and began having children. The family moved to Rio de Janeiro for two years, where Stanisława attended school in Portuguese and (providentially) German but returned home when she was fourteen. Her father was forced to fight for the Russian army for five years while her mother worked twelve-hour days at a factory. And all because of Servant of God Stanisława Leszczyńska.īorn to a Polish Catholic family during a time when her part of Poland was under Russian rule, Stanisława (1896–1974) had a tumultuous childhood. There were babies who lived and mothers who lived. ![]() But in the maternity ward there was peace. ![]() The babies were taken or the mothers were sent back out to work, trying desperately to feed their babies as they and all those around them starved. There were painless births and healthy babies and mothers holding their little ones as the midwife that they all called “Mother” prayed with them and sang to them and treated them like human beings. There, as the lice bit and the patients shivered and the rats skittered, there was-astonishingly-peace. Auschwitz was hell, a nightmare of agony, grief, and despair.
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