The beatified Sister Zdenka Schelingová, with the maiden name Cecília, was born on 24 December 1916 in “Krivá na Orave”. Entirely engrossed by the love and self-sacrifice of the merciful sisters of the Holy Cross, she – as a fifteen-year-old girl – went to their convent for nuns in Podunajské Biskupice and committed to give all her life to the love of God and her neighbors. After finishing medical school and compulsory convent education, on 30 January 1937 she took her first vows and received her convent name - Zdenka. As a medical nurse, she first worked in Humenné, and from...