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Alina Petrowa-Wasilewicz

Alina Petrowa-Wasilewicz writes for OSV News from Warsaw, Poland.

When nuns perished during adoration in wartime Warsaw, white doves rose into sky

August 8, 2025
By Alina Petrowa-Wasilewicz
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Saints, World News

The wartime story of the heroic nuns from Warsaw begins during the uprising in August 1944, when their convent became a site of both faith and tragedy.

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