Krakow, Poland, Nov 21, 2018 / 13:45 pm
Believed to be the "oldest nun in the world," Polish Dominican nun Sister Cecylia Maria Roszak has died at the age of 110, the Archdiocese of Krakow has announced.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="pl" dir="ltr">W Krakowie zmarła najstarsza siostra zakonna na świecie – Matka Cecylia Maria Roszak z klasztoru sióstr dominikanek „Na Gródku". Z okazji 110. urodzin, które obchodziła 25 marca tego roku, odwiedził ją <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/abpMarekJ%C4%99draszewski?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#abpMarekJędraszewski</a>.<a href="https://twitter.com/EpiskopatNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EpiskopatNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/tUH8x8vvmW">https://t.co/tUH8x8vvmW</a> <a href="https://t.co/vPj7CA0tyX">pic.twitter.com/vPj7CA0tyX</a></p>— Archidiecezja Krakowska (@ArchKrakowska) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArchKrakowska/status/1063448762725662724?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Sr. Cecylia was born Maria Roszak on March 25, 1908 in the town of Kielczewo in west-central Poland. After graduating from trade school at the age of 21, she entered a cloistered convent of Dominican sisters in Krakow, at the "On Gródek" monastery, as it is commonly called.
In 1938, she traveled with a group of her sisters to Vilnius (now in Lithuania, but at the time a part of Poland) where the nuns were hoping to establish another convent. However, the outbreak of World War II prevented them from doing so.