Miłość matki cząstką odblasku Bożej miłości

Abstract

Maria Małgorzata Bocheńska (1882-1931) had inherited in 1907 a family estate Ponikwa near Brody in the Ukraine. It was there that she began her lively social and national activity. She established, among other things, the Society of Popular School, a Reiffeisen Bank, and a creche. Near the church in Ponikwa she founded a presbytery in 1918, and in 1927 she built a parochial church in Czerwiszcze in Polesia. She came up with financial support for hospitals and monasteries in Lvov, for the unemployed and others in need. She prayed a lot and lived an almost religious life. In 1922 in Rome she joined the 3rd Order of Discalced Carmelites. In 1925 in Lvov she wrote and published “The Life of St. John of the Cross”, and in the years of 1928-29 “The Life of St. Theresa of Jesus According to Bollandists.” She brought up four children: her late eminent sons and her daughter who is still alive.