Mother Matylda Getter
Mother Matylda Getter could just lock the gate and return to her prayers, but kids were dying all around, and for her, helping others was as natural as breathing. ➡️She had a big experience in aiding the poor, the orphaned and the persecuted, dating back to the previous century. Why, the order of the convent she chose to join, Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary expressly defined its mission as relieving the pain and helping the needy. This is what Mother Getter did, first under the Tsarist rule, then in free Poland, and finally, under German occupation. ➡️It was the years 1939 to 1945 which posed the biggest challenge: never before had hundreds of thousands of people been doomed to destruction, and turned into the needy overnight. The Jews of Warsaw were fenced off like cattle, confined to a small area, banned natural human rights, starved and exploited through hard labour, to be finally murdered en masse. ➡️Mother Superior and other Sisters were no strangers to defying the ...