In the mid-19th century, both the Discalced Carmelite men's and women's houses found themselves in a serious crisis. In Galicia it was initiated in the second half of the 18th century by the modernization projects of Joseph II, in the Kingdom of Poland the contemplative orders were dissolved by the Russian authorities in the years 1795-1832. The uncertain political situation in Poland determined the fate of the Catholic Church and its orders. However, despite all the difficulties, the Discalced Carmelites managed to return to the sources of their spirituality, St. John of the Cross and Saint Teresa of Avila, and begin the successful reform of their homes. A renewal initiated by the Carmelite Sisters, whose arrival to Poznań from Belgium in 1867 was stopped by the developing Kulturkampf. In 1874, the nuns were considered undesirable foreigners and forced to leave Prussia. The group of sisters who moved to Krakow included Sister Maria Ksawera née Maria Grocholska, widow of Count. Witold Czartoryski (died in 1865), who maintained close contacts with the Hotel Lambert in Paris, the emigration center of the Czartoryski family. Her brothers, Tadeusz and Stanisław Grocholski, donated significant sums to the construction of the monastery of the Protection of Saint. Józefa in Kraków-Łobzów, from which new houses of the Discalced Carmelites were built in Przemyśl (1884), Lviv (1888) and Poznań (1888). The monastery in Kraków-Łobzów played a decisive role in the revival of the Carmelite Province of the Holy Spirit in Poland. Thanks to Sister Maria Ksawera of Jesus, Józef Kalinowski, a fighter of the January Uprising of 1863-64 and a resident of the Hotel Lambert, joined the order of Discalced Carmelites. Thanks to her efforts, the Definitory Generale of the order renovated the monastery in Czerna in 1880 and sent there a group of brothers from the Carmelite provinces of Western Europe, headed by Father Raphael of Saint Joseph. Czerna, in turn, became the "mother" of the Carmelite house in Wadowice. Founded by Rafał Kalinowski in 1892, it became the cradle of Carmelite vocations in Poland for decades to come. The Letters of Sister Maria Ksawery of Jesus, addressed mainly to Izabela Działyńska and Władysław Czartoryski, are a record of her tireless efforts to revive Carmelite communities and Carmelite spirituality in Galicia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.