Blessed Maria Anna Kratochwil
Also known as
- Maria Antonina
- Sister Antonina
- 2 October
- 12 June as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II
Profile
Nun, joining the School Sisters of Our Lady in 1901, and making her profession on 27 September 1910 in Breslau, Silesia. Elementary school in Karwina, Poland from 1906 to 1917, and then in Lwów, Poland (modern Lviv, Ukraine) from 1917 to 1925. Head of a Congregation boarding school and spiritual director of candidates to the Congregation in Tlumacz, Poland from 1925 to 1932, then in Lwów from 1931 to 1939. Head of the sisters in Mikuliczyn, Poland from 1940 to 1942. Imprisoned with several of her sisters, repeatedly tortured and eventually martyred in the Nazi persecutions of World War II.
Born
- 21 August 1881 in Ostrava (a.k.a. Witkowice), Ostravský kraj, Poland (in the modern Czech Republic)
- tortured to death on 2 October 1942 in Ivano-Frankivs’k (a.k.a. Stanislawów), Ukraine
- grave site, if any, unknown
- 26 March 1999 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)
MLA Citation
- “Blessed Maria Anna Kratochwil“. CatholicSaints.Info. 6 March 2020. Web. 26 April 2024. <>