Sister Wanda Boniszewska

 

(1907-2003)

 

 

 

was born on June 2, 1907 in Nowa Kamionka near Nowogródek , - nun in the Roman Catholic Church, stigmatic and Christian mystic.

 

On January 6, 1925 she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Angeles in Vilnius. On 2 August, 1933 in Kalwaria she performed monastic vows. Since spring 1933 she was in Congregation in Pryciuny near Vilnius. Her mystical confessor were priests Tadeusz Makarewicz and Czesław Barwicki.

 

 

Mystical experiences.

 

In 1934 in Holly Week on Thursday she received stigmata. She had wounds on her palms, feet, head, right side of the body and chest. The wounds appear irregularly, especially on Thursday’s afternoon, on Friday and during Lent and  the Holly Week.  According to witnesses evidences she had a gift of  prophesy, inediate and healing. She was being attacked by beyond world forces. Her spiritual director was archbishop Romuald Jabrzykłowki.

 

Persecutions.

 

 

In 1944 she was sent to poorhouse for incurable patients. Sister Wanda, priest Antoni Ząbek and other sisters were  accused of  belonging to illegal Convent and hiding  Vatican agents. She was arrested on April 11, 1950. She was kept in prison at Ofiarna Street in Vilnius. During the investigation she was mostly in the prison’s hospital in Lukiszki. On September 19, 1950 she was sentenced by Soviet court for 10 years imprisonment. On August 26 in 1956 she was let free and  repatriated  in Byków near Moscow. Then in 1958 she was sent to mental hospital. In Poland she was living in her Congregation houses in: Chylice, Białystok, Lutkówka near Warsaw, Częstochowa, Konstancin.

 

Sister Wanda Boniszewska died in Konstancin-Jeziorno on March 2 in 2003.

 

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