Background
Celine was born in Antowil, Orsza, formerly Grand Duchy of Lithuania, today in Belarus, one of the three children of wealthy land-owning parents, Ignatius and Petronella Chludzińska.
Celine was born in Antowil, Orsza, formerly Grand Duchy of Lithuania, today in Belarus, one of the three children of wealthy land-owning parents, Ignatius and Petronella Chludzińska.
In Rome, she met French In 1887, Celine Borzęcka opened her first school, where Monsingor Giacomo della Chiesa (the future Pope Benedict XV) served as chaplain. In the fall of 1891, the congregation"s first house was opened near Wadowice in Poland. Other houses soon followed in Bulgaria, Poland, and the United States.
Mother Celine Borzęcka continued to lead the institute until 1911.
She died in Krakow, Poland.