Bernardyna Maria Jabłońska
Beatified Polish nun (1878-1940)
Feast: 23 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Maria Jabłońska was born on 5 August 1878 at Pizuny, in the parish of Lipsko, Poland. At eighteen she joined the community founded by St Brother Albert Chmielowski to serve the neediest and most abandoned.
As Sister Bernardina she became co-foundress of the Albertine Sisters Servants of the Poor and secured the congregation's legal footing. Always ready for the poor and the sick, she died in Kraków on 23 September 1940, leaving her sisters the words 'Do good to everyone'.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
She served the poorest with St Albert and left her sisters one rule: do good to everyone.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Connected on this site
- Albert Chmielowski Saint“Maria Jabłońska (13 June 1878 – 23 September 1940) - in religious Bernardyna - was a Polish Roman Catholic professed religious and the co-founder of the Sisters Servants of the Poor (1891) that she founded alongside Albert Chmielowski.” — Wikipedia
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Bernardina Jablonska
- Wikidata Q589040 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Bernardyna Maria Jabłońska (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.