Bienheureuse Célestine Faron
Religieuse polonaise martyre à Auschwitz (+ 1944)
Jeune religieuse polonaise, elle était entrée à 16 ans chez les Petites Servantes de l'Immaculée Conception. Elle avait offert sa vie pour le retour d'un prêtre qui s'était éloigné de la foi. Dieu l'entendit. Arrêtée en février 1942 par la Gestapo allemande, elle fut déportée à Auschwitz où elle mourut le jour de Pâques 1944, des suites des tortures qu'elle avait courageusement supportées.
Au camp de concentration d’Auschwitz (Oswiecin), près de Cracovie en Pologne, l’an 1944, la bienheureuse Célestine Faron, vierge, de la Congrégation des Servantes de l’Immaculée Conception et martyre, qui, sous le régime nazi d’occupation, fut mise en prison à cause de la foi et succomba aux sévices.
Martyrologe romain
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Bienheureuse Célestine Faron
(Publié: janvier 20, 2013)
Cette année, chaque mois, nous publierons les articles sur les saints ou des bienheureux, qui d’une manière spéciale étaient liés à l’idée de la prière pour les prêtres.
Célestine (Catherine) Faron a été née le 24 IV 1913.
Elle était éduquée dans tres religieuse polonaise famille. Elle perdait sa mère à l’âge de 5 ans.
Elle était une étudiante honnête et studieux. Jeune religieuse polonaise, elle était entrée à 16 ans chez les Petites Servantes de l’Immaculée Conception. Elle participait à un certain nombre de cours et de formation. Elle était une catéchiste. En plus: elle aidait les personnes âgées qui habitaient près du monastère. Elle avait soin des enfants dans la maternelle.
Un jour elle renseignait qu’il avait le prêtre avec le même nom – ce prêtre abandonnait la prêtrise. Elle avait offert sa vie pour le retour d’un prêtre qui s’était éloigné de la foi. Elle priait pour son conversion. Dieu l’entendit. Arrêtée en février 1942 par la Gestapo allemande, elle fut déportée à Auschwitz. Elle était aimée – elle aidait tous prisonniers, qui avaient besoin. Dans le camp de concentration, les gens avaient les conditions terribles: beaucoup d’insectes, de rats; une capable de prendre soin de l’hygiène était négligeable. Les prisonniers en Auschwitz souffraient, parce que ils étaient malade (c’ était possible d’observer les maladies: le froid, la fièvre typhoïde, la gale). Elle mourut le jour de Pâques 1944, des suites de souffrance, qu’elle avait courageusement supportées.
Le prêtre, Wladyslaw Faron, retournait à l’église – il était le prêtre encore. Son ministère devenait fidèle, sérieux, digne, pieux, dévoué et zélé.
Célestine (Catherine) Faron devenait bienheureuse le 13.06.1999 (elle était parmi les 108 martyrs polonais, qu’ils étaient béatifiés à cette jour à Varsovie).
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Socha
sestry Celestýny Farion u kostela Proměnění Páně v Brzozowě, Polsko
Celestyna Farion Statue at the Transfiguration Church in Brzozów, Poland
Socha
sestry Celestýny Farion u kostela Proměnění Páně v Brzozowě, Polsko
Celestyna Farion Statue at the Transfiguration Church in Brzozów, Poland
Socha
sestry Celestýny Farion u kostela Proměnění Páně v Brzozowě, Polsko
Celestyna
Farion Statue at the Transfiguration Church in Brzozów, Poland
KATARZYNA CELESTYNA FARON
Religieuse, Martyre, Bienheureuse
1913-1944
Katarzyna Celestyna Faron naquit le 24 avril 1913 dans
la ville polonaise de Zabrzez.
Plus tard, elle entra chez les Petites Servantes de
l’Immaculée Conception et, après ses vœux perpétuels et après avoir acquis une
maturité spirituelle indéniable, elle devînt supérieure de la communauté de
Brzozow.
Après l’avènement du régime nazi et, comprenant les
conséquences que cette utopie pourrait engendrer, elle offrit sa vie pour un
prêtre qui en était devenu adepte. La Gestapo ayant eu connaissance de
l’aversion de sœur Katarzyna envers le nazisme, l’arrêta et l’envoya aux
travaux forcés à Auschwitz.
Dans ce camp de concentration de triste
mémoi-re ― situé tout près de la frontière polonaise ― sœur
Katarzyna affronta héroïquement les souffrances les plus horribles, venant à
mourir des suites de celles-ci le jour de Pâques, 9 avril 1944, alors qu’elle
allait bientôt (le 24 avril) fêter ses trente-et-un ans.
Elle fait partie de la “cohorte” des 108 martyrs des
camps de concentration nazis, durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, que le 13 juin
1999, à Varsovie, sur la place Pilsudski, le Pape Jean-Paul II l’éleva aux
honneurs des autels, “ad perpetuam rei memoriam”.
« Les martyrs du nazisme sont morts pour la
plupart dans les camps de concentration. Des prêtres diocésains et religieux
furent arrêtés parce qu’ils refusaient de renoncer à leurs activités
pastorales, défendaient les Juifs ou les communistes, des prêtres furent
fusillés par raillerie le Vendredi Saint. »
Mais, ce n’est pas tout. Un chroniquer explique
que, « le nombre élevé de prêtres est lié au fait que le nazisme
s’acharnait tout particulièrement contre les hommes d’Église qui par leur
témoignage dénonçaient un système basé sur la violence et la haine ».
Ce même jour, fut aussi celui de la glorification du
fondateur de la Congrégation à laquelle appartenait sœur Katarzyna, le
laïc Edmund
Bojanowski.
Elle fut une étudiante honnête et studieuse. Elle entra dès l'âge de 16 ans chez les Petites Servantes de l'Immaculée Conception. Elle participa à un certain nombre de cours et fut catéchiste. Elle exerça par la suite la charge de maîtresse à la crèche où avait soin des enfants. En plus, elle aidait les personnes âgées qui habitaient près du monastère. Elle devint plus tard supérieure de la maison religieuse de Brzozow.
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Also
known as
Celestyna Faron
Catherine Faron
Celestine Faron
prisoner #27989
12 June as
one of the 108
Martyrs of World War II
Profile
Orphaned at
age five, Katarzyna was raised by childless relatives. Entered the Congregation
of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate in 1930,
taking the name Celestyna and making pertual vows on 15
September 1938. Catechist and
kindergarten teacher.
During World War II she ran an orphanage,
led a religious house, and continued to work as a catechist. Arrested by
the Gestapo on 19
February 1942 at
Brzozów, Poland,
charged with conspiracy against the Nazi regime. Imprisoned in
Jaslo, Poland,
then Tarnów, Poland,
and finally shipped to Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp where she was put
to work digging ditches. Developed tuberculosis and typhoid,
and her health finally collapsed completely. Martyr.
Born
24 April 1913 in
Zabrzez, Malopolskie, Poland
Easter morning, 9 April 1944 in
Auschwitz concentration camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Nazi-occupied Poland
26 March 1999 by Pope John
Paul II (decree of martyrdom)
13 June 1999 by Pope John
Paul II in Warsaw, Poland
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Blessed Katarzyna Faron
Katarzyna Faron’s early
life was filled with sadness and loss as she was orphaned at the age of just
five years old. She was brought up by an aunt who was unable to have children.
As a teenage girl she developed a vocation to the religious life. It was in
1930 that she entered the Congregation of the Sister Servants of Mary
Immaculate and made her final profession eight years later. Her name in
religion was Celstyna. She was encouraged to train as a teacher and developed a
particular heart for the younger children. Because of her own difficult and
traumatic experiences in early life, Katarzyna cared greatly for those who had
lost her parents. During the occupation of Poland she was the local superior of
a religious house and oversaw the running of an orphanage.
As with Blessed Bronislaw
Koskowski, the Gestapo arrived one day and searched the orphanage. Katarzyna
was arrested and charged with conspiracy. After imprisonment in two camps she
was transported to Auschwitz where she was given hard manual work to complete
which included ditch digging. Weakened by this back breaking labour, she
developed tuberculosis and typhoid. She died on Easter Sunday in 1944.
Katarzyna provides a wonderful model for those who have experienced a traumatic
childhood. Despite a difficult start in life she achieved a great deal and
cared for the most vulnerable. Her invincible faith brought her through her
early life and sustained her throughout her final suffering.
The blessed sister
Celestine (Katherine) Faron
Sister Katherine
(Celestine) Faron was born 24 VI 1913 in Zabrzez in Poland. When she was 5
years old, her mother died. Katherine was brought up by relatives, who didn’t
have their own baby. These relatives were very religious people and they shared
all religious and moral rules with Katherine. Little Katherine was especially
impressed by Mary and saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus. In 1920 she began her
education in primary school; she took Holy Communion for the first time in the
first year of her education in this school. She was always faithful to her
vocation, so when her father and her aunt gave her permission, Katherine
submitted a request to join the congregation of the Little Servant Sisters of
the Immaculate Conception in Stara Wies. In April 1929 she got permission to
join the congregation. She took final vows in 1938. Katherine participated in
many courses in Lviv, Poznan and Przemysl – with such qualifications she could
work as a teacher, tutor and catechist.
She was said to be a
devoted, united with God person, who had prayed with a great faith. Katherine
worked in kindergartens for kids from poor families, so she cared especially
about children and called them “treasures”. She wanted to know what is going on
in fatherland and in Church. She was interested in a service for the conversion
of human souls. In Lviv she got an information that there was a priest with the
same name as her; this priest decided to abandoned a priesthood. Katherine
resolved to devote her life in the intention of his conversion. In January 1938
she worked in the kindergarten in Brzozow. What is more: she looked after old
people, who lived in the vicinity.
Katherine lived in
Brzozow in September 1939, when the Second World War began. In this period, she
managed a monastic house for nuns from Brzozow, she worked in kindergarten (in
this time there was an additional task of fatten children). Somebody informed against
her. On 19th February 1942 sister Celestine got a directive to come to the
headquarters of gestapo in Brzozow. When a nun from their monastic house
advised her to escape and to hide somewhere, Katherine said that it wouldn’t be
a good solution, because it could result in many troubles for congregation. She
preferred to suffer on her own. She went to the headquarters of gestapo and
never came back. From the moment of being arrested, she began her Stations of
the Cross (God accepted her request to become “a burnt offer for Jesus Christ
and to devote her life in the intention of a conversion of the priest”). Till
August 1942 she have been in prison in Jaslo, then in prison in Tarnow. On 6th
January 1943 she was transported to concentration camp in Auschwitz – Birkenau.
Her number in concentration camp was 27989; she got stripped uniform and wooden
shoes. She was to live in barrack number 7. Katherine dug trenches – it was
extremely hard work for her, because she had to stand in deep pool and throw
away heavy sand. Soon, she became ill – a cold, a spotted fever, a scabies. She
was moved to the barrack number 24 (she rested there until she died).
Because of bad conditions
in concentration camp, Celestine’s illness developed and eventually it turned
out that she had a tuberculosis and hemorrhages. From time to time she got some
packages from nuns from congregation – she shared received things with other
prisoners. The hygienic conditions in concentration camp were a hard experience
– there were: fleas, bedbugs and a plague of rats. Ill prisoners were in the
worst situation, so Katherine (because of her health problems) had to suffer a
lot. Her companions tried to do as much as possible to help her – many times
they tried to hide Celestine, because they were afraid that she would be
destined to crematory. Katherine’s companions wanted her to survive.
All testimonies of her
companions and other prisoners, letters from concentration camp (censored by
occupation forces) gave a possibility to get to know many things about
Celestine. She praised God in suffering and she advised other people to do the
same. In her last letter she pointed out that it was important to glorify God,
irrespective of the circumstances. She didn’t feel any grief, she didn’t look
for enemies or people, who were “responsible” for her suffering. She repeated:
“this is God’s will and His will!“ She went through many difficulties and
suffering because of her persistent prayer – she prayed for conversion of
sinners, for fatherland, for congregation and especially: for priests (they
were treated badly and destined to crematories). Katherine was sad that there
wouldn’t be anybody to celebrate Holy Masses. In addition: she prayed for
Hitler – main author of this cruel plan. Development of illness could be a sign
that an end of her life was approaching. Sister Celestine believed that she
wouldn’t die without taking Holy Communion (she celebrated nine successive
First Fridays). Eventually, she took Holy Communion as a viaticum on 8th
December 1943. Holy Communion was secretly brought to concentration camp by a
priest, who came to camp with other prisoners from Lviv. After taking Holy
Communion, Katherine started to maintain that she wouldn’t survive until the
release of prisoners.
Sister Celestine died on Easter (on 9 April 1944 at 2:20 am). She was sincerely missed by her companions. Her dead body was wrapped in a fabric – Katherine’s companions took it to special car going to crematory. Sister Lidia wrote: “Her body became a handful of dust, but we believe that she is participating in eternal delight with Jesus Christ”.
God answered Celestine’s prayers: father Wladyslaw Faron (with two other men, who abandoned priesthood) came back to Church and fervently continued his service; for many years he worked in Diocese of Szczecin.
Sister Celestine (Katherine) Faron was beatified by pope John Paul II on 13th
June 1999 (she was in a group of 108 polish martyrs).
Information based on
articles from website: http://www.gron.com/
SOURCE : https://enddak.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/the-blessed-sister-celestine-katherine-faron/
Beata Caterina Celestina
(Katarzyna Celestyna) Faron Vergine e martire
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Zabrzez, Polonia, 24
aprile 1913 – Auschwitz, Polonia, 9 aprile 1944
Caterina Celestina Faron,
nata nel 1913, fa parte della schiera dei martiri polacchi del nazismo. La
suora aveva offerto la sua vita per la conversione di un sacerdote. Arrestata
dalla Gestapo fu condannata ai lavori forzati nel campo di Auschwitz. Affrontò
eroicamente le sofferenze, morendo il giorno di Pasqua del 1944. La giovane
religiosa è stata beatificata da Giovanni Paolo II in Polonia il 13 giugno del
1999 insieme ad altri 107 martiri e a Edmund Bojanowski (1814-1871), fondatore
della sua Congregazione di appartenenza, le Ancelle dell'Immacolata
Concezione. (Avvenire)
Martirologio Romano: Nel
campo di sterminio di Auschwitz vicino a Cracovia in Polonia, beata Celestina
Faron, vergine della Congregazione delle Piccole Serve dell’Immacolata
Concezione e martire, che, durante l’occupazione militare della Polonia in
tempo di guerra, fu gettata in carcere per la sua fede in Cristo e, dopo essere
stata sottoposta a torture, ottenne la corona gloriosa.
Katarzyna Celestyna Faron
nacque il 24 aprile 1913 nella città polacca di Zabrzez. Entrò fra le Suore
Ancelle dell’Immacolata Concezione e divenne superiora della comunità di
Brzozow. Con l’avvento del regime nazista, la religiosa aveva offerto la sua
vita per la conversione di un sacerdote. Arrestata dalla Gestapo, fu condannata
ai lavori forzati nel lager di Auschwitz. Affrontò eroicamente le sofferenze,
morendo in seguito alle numerose torture subite il giorno di Pasqua 9 aprile
1944, ancora in giovane età.
Papa Giovanni Paolo II
l’13 giugno 1999 elevò agli onori degli altari ben 108 vittime della medesima
persecuzione nazista, tra le quali la Beata Katarzyna Celestyna Faron, che
viene dunque ora commemorata dal Martyrologium Romanum in data odierna. In quell’occasione
fu beatificato anche il fondatore della congregazione di appartenenza di Suor
Celestina, il laico Edmund Bojanowski.
Autore: Fabio
Arduino
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/92072
Voir aussi : http://www.dziedzictwo.ekai.pl/text.show?id=3961
