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201. Many articles appeared in the polish Catholic press at the time on the
ungratefulness of the Polish nation to God and to the Church.
202. A place in the Carpathian hills, where the Congregation has a small vacation
house for sisters and girls.
203 Probably Sister Helen, who was the superior of the Rabka house. Sister Helen –
Mary Urbanska, born in 1884, entered the Congregation in 1908. She was a nurse and in
1932 took over management of the newly acquired house at Rabka. She died at Rabka on
August 6, 1940.
204. “Remember” – a prayer to St. Joseph said daily by the whole Congregation.
205. Perhaps one of the Benedictine Fathers, Kazimierz Ratkiewicz (1906-1965), who
was a friend of the sisters in Rabka. The first group of Benedictines arrived in Poland in
1936 and settled in the “Jaworzyna” villa in Rabka, not far from the hourse of the
Congregation of Our Lady of Mercy called “Loretto.” The Fathers regularly said Masses
there, and Father Ratkiewicz busied himself with hearing the sisters‟ confessions. He was
great friends with “Loretto,” and it is very likely that it was he who heard Sister Faustina‟s
confession.
206. The novena which is in the Diary was published, with some changes, in a
pamphlet called Chrystus Krol Milosierdzia (Christ King of Mercy) in 1937, by the J. Cebulski
Press, Cracow. The cover had a colored picture representing the Merciful Christ with the
rays and the inscription “Jezu, ufam Tobie” (“Jesus, I trust in You”). Thecontents included
the Novena to The Divine Mercy, the Litany and the Chaplet.
The superior of the Cracow house, Mother Irene Krzyzanowska, sent out the leaflet to
the other houses of the Congregation. The sisters said the prayers privately, but did not
know their origin.
207. According to the Congregation‟s custom, the parlor was entered by the superiors
or by sisters appointed for that function. Other sisters could go to their guests only by
permission of the superior of the house.
208. Reference is to the imprimatur of two publications: 1. An image of Jesus with
the Chaplet to The Divine Mercy on the back, for which Fr. Sopocko obtained permission in
Vilnius on Sept. 1, 1937 (No. R. 200/ 37); 2. A small pamphlet under the title Chrystus Krol
Milosierdzia (Christ King of Mercy), which included the novena, the chaplet and the litany to
The Divine Mercy. The imprimatur was granted by the Metropolitan Curia in Cracow (L.
671/37). Both were published by the J. Cebulski Publishing House, 22 Szewska St., Cracow.
209. It is likely that the writer mistakenly recorded August instead of September.
210. Sister Faustina calls the gate a “desert” because the gatekeeper remained
separated from the rest of the Congregation during most of the day.
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