Blessed Natalia Tułasiewicz: Patronessof Polish Teachers

Blessed Natalia Tułasiewicz (1906-1945) is the patron saint of Polish teachers announced in 2022. She graduated from the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań. She was a Polish teacher, poet and social activist active in the interwar and war period. As a teacher, she paid attention to the patriotic education, cultural, moral and spiritual values ​​of her students. Since childhood, she belonged to the Marian Sodality, where she developed spiritually and intellectually and gave lectures. She was passionate about literature, music, theater art, traveled and admired the beauty of nature. She broke off the engagement, entrusting her life and love to God. Shortly after the outbreak of World War II, she organized a makeshift school, and during the war and wandering, she began working as a "travel" teacher in clandestine teaching, organized weekly literary Wednesdays, actively participated in retreats and days of recollection, wrote poems and short stories, and devoted herself to everyday life. prayer. She was one of the first to volunteer as an emissary for forced labor in the Third Reich, where she performed an educational and apostolic mission, taking care of the cultural, spiritual, moral and patriotic development of Polish workers. In 1944, she was arrested, subjected to barbaric torture and sentenced to death. On Good Friday 1945, she was selected for the gas chamber, and a day later she died.