Celine Borzecka
Foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Resurrection (1833-1913)
Feast: 26 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Celina Chludzińska was born on 29 October 1833 at Antowil near Orsha, then Polish land, today Belarus, into a family of wealthy Catholic landowners. She married and was later widowed.
She founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ. She died on 26 October 1913 in a simple flat in Kraków during a visitation.
The miracles
The miracle for her beatification was approved on 16 December 2007; the biography does not describe it.
Why that counted as sanctity
A widow who founded a congregation named for the Resurrection of Christ.
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
- Hedwig Borzecka Saint Child“Hedwig Borzęcka, sometimes written as Jadwiga Borzęcka, (1 February 1863 – 27 September 1906) was a religious sister and the co-foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Resurrection along with her natural mother, Celine Borzecka.” — Wikipedia
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Celina Chludzińska v. Borzęcka
- Wikidata Q268990 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Celine Borzecka (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.