Saint Eleonora Aniela Jóźwik

Eleonora Aniela Jóźwik, Sister Maria Daniela of Jesus and Mary Immaculate (born January 25, 1895, in Poizdów near Kock; died August 1, 1943, near Nowogródek), was a Polish religious sister of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth and a blessed of the Catholic Church. On January 21, 1920, she entered the novitiate in Grodno, where she took her religious vows and perpetual vows. She arrived in Nowogródek in 1932. Lacking formal education, she worked in cleaning, laundry, and the kitchen. She first faced repression from the Soviet occupiers immediately after the outbreak of World War II. Following the German invasion, she offered her life for the residents of the city and was executed by firing squad along with ten other religious sisters. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on March 5, 2000, as one of the eleven Martyrs of Nowogródek.