Sister (+92) Professed her Final Vows After 47 Years
Stigmatine Sister Maria Kaleta, 92, a survivor of Albania’s communist regime, has died. She entered the novitiate in 1944 but the Communists closed her convent so she could profess her final vows only …More
Stigmatine Sister Maria Kaleta, 92, a survivor of Albania’s communist regime, has died.
She entered the novitiate in 1944 but the Communists closed her convent so she could profess her final vows only in 1991.
Until then, she lived alone in a humble house keeping the Blessed Sacrament in a bedside table, AgenSir.it (January 8) writes. She visited the priests in secret, took the Blessed Sacrament and brought it to the sick and to priests in prison.
Sr Maria baptised all those who came to her door. Once, she even baptised a girl by taking water from a canal with her shoe.
The Lord rewarded her for all the suffering, even here on earth – she told Francis who loves to flirt with Communism during his Albania visit, “The churches reopened, and I had the good fortune to become a nun.” Among the children she baptised is Sapë Bishop Simon Kulli, 48.
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She entered the novitiate in 1944 but the Communists closed her convent so she could profess her final vows only in 1991.
Until then, she lived alone in a humble house keeping the Blessed Sacrament in a bedside table, AgenSir.it (January 8) writes. She visited the priests in secret, took the Blessed Sacrament and brought it to the sick and to priests in prison.
Sr Maria baptised all those who came to her door. Once, she even baptised a girl by taking water from a canal with her shoe.
The Lord rewarded her for all the suffering, even here on earth – she told Francis who loves to flirt with Communism during his Albania visit, “The churches reopened, and I had the good fortune to become a nun.” Among the children she baptised is Sapë Bishop Simon Kulli, 48.
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An Albanian nun renowned for her courageous faith under communist persecution has died aged 92. Sr Marije Kaleta risked life to baptise babies & bring Holy Communion to sick & dying under Hoxha regime. State martyred many faithful & destroyed churches in bid to establish Atheism.
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Now in a previous era of The Church, such piety might be called saintly. But since she isn't a Pokemon nerd doing a school-boy coding project, a lifetime of devotion ot God, many good works, and steadfast faith in spite of constant persecution simply doesn't qualify.