Nazaretanki w Wadowicach

The Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth have been in Wadowice for 115 years. The sisters came to the town on the River Skawa in 1896. They have been active in the local community life from the beginning. Their first work was to look after poor and hungry children. Next was giving care to sick people at the municipal hospital hospital. Then the sisters took to providing vocational training for young girls and teaching in the preschool. None of the sisters would have believed that one of their pupils would go on years later to become the Pope, taking the name of John Paul II. The next area of activity for the order appeared with the opening of the vocational sewing school, orphanage and girls’ boarding school. Many of these works changed over time with social and historical changes. It should be noted that the Communist regime that reigned in Poland from 1945 to 1989 had an impact on the directions of the order’s activities. The scope of the sisters’ mission today includes the Social Welfare Home, the John Paul II Children’s Centre, catechism teachings and parish works, and service to the Museum of the Family Home of John Paul II, through which the order shares its testimony of life with the thousands of Poles and representatives of many people from many countries and continents who are fascinated by the Blessed Pope.