ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 19th of May WELCOME! BLESSED ROSA CZACKA, VIRGIN AND FOUNDRESS Mother Rosa Czacka Countess Rosa Czacka (Róża Czacka) was born on October 22, 1876 in Biała Cerkiew , in today's Ukraine. She suffered from progressive vision loss - despite the numerous surgical interventions that were performed on her, she went completely blind in her early twenties. Falling from a horse, which detached both retinas, had accelerated the process. Already in 1911, while living in Warsaw, the Polish capital, Rosa had begun caring for the blind there (at Holy Cross Church). Having recognized the full extent of lack of organized care for the partially sighted and the blind in Poland, she henceforth devoted herself to that need with heart and soul and all her strength. Rosa entered the Franciscan Third Order on August 15, 1917 - taking the saint's name Elizabeth (Elżbieta) - before founding her own religious congregation in late 1918, the F...