Blessed Marie Poussepin, January 24

Blessed Marie Poussepin

Dourdan, 1653 – Sainville, 1744

Born in Dourdan (Essonne) from a family deeply committed Christian and works of charity, following the failure of her father, she courageously took over the father’s factory, transforming it into a pilot plant, aimed more at social good than profit. In 1691 she entered the Dominican Third Order, which appreciated her spirit of contemplation and apostolic purpose. Realizing that God and Saint Dominic called her to a different lifestyle, she left the factory with her brother and moved to Jainville, where poverty and ignorance were higher. Here she founded a community-type female Dominican Order, not cloistered and open to works of charity: the Dominican Sisters of Charity of the presentation of the s. Virgin.

January 9: Blessed Tommaso Reggio

Blessed Tommaso Reggio, 1818 – 1901

Blessed Józef Pawłowski, January 9 Polish New Martyr

Blessed Józef Pawłowski

+ Dachau, Germany, January 9, 1942

On January 9 we commemorate the anniversary of the martyrdom of Polish priest, Joszef Pawlowski , victim of terror in Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, beatified by their compatriot Pope John Paul II on June 1999, together with 107 companions, including a fellow priest.

Joszef Pawlowski, was born in Proszowice, around Swietokrzyskie Poland, August 12, 1890 and was a priest from the Diocese of Kielce and rector of the seminary. He was arrested on February 1941 by the Gestapo, deported to the camp at Dachau, where he was hanged the following January 9.

SOURCE: Santi e Beati