
The main theme of Antonio Sagardoy's monograph, published in German in 2001, is the life, work and martyrdom of nun Maria Restituta Kafka (1894–1943), born at the end of the 19th century in the Austro-Hungarian city of Hucovice near Brno. The author chronologically presents the fate of the Blessed One, without giving up on presenting a religious interpretation of the decisions she made and showing her experiences accompanying her work, among others in the Mödling hospital near Vienna, as well as her isolation while waiting for the execution of the death sentence, when she was maturing to accept her fate in an atmosphere of abandonment, loneliness, fear, limitation and helplessness, while growing in faith and trust in God. The aim of the review article is to check and discuss the contribution of the monograph to the rich literature on the subject, showing the lives and works of non-Polish saints and blessed ones living in the recent past. Moreover, the aim of the following text is to try to assess whether the content contained in the reviewed book may constitute an issue worth developing and publishing in Polish in order to promote the achievements of the Austrian nun outside Austria.
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