Mother Paula Sophia Tajber

The foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Most Holy Soul of Christ, was born on June 23, 1980 in Biała Podlaska, Poland. She spent her youth in Żytomierz (currenty part of Ukraine) where she went through a faith crisis influenced by the material of atheist philosophers. During this time Sophia deeply experienced how difficult it was to live without the light of faith, having witnessed atrocities, repressions, and the corruption of man during the Russian revolution and World War I. To see people suffering in this manner had a great impact on her. She underwent a total conversion to Jesus Christ and the Catholic Faith.

On October 24, 1923, the first Religious House was opened in Prądnik Biały, a suburb of Kraków (Poland) as a Catholic Organization for the Formation of a Religious Life in Honor of the Most Holy Soul of Christ. Mother Paula became its first Superior. In 1949, after acquiring 95 members and 16 convents located in five different dioceses in Poland, the long awaited Canonical Approval was granted, and the Society became a Community.

Mother Paula Sophia Tajber died on May 28, 1963 in Siedlec in a state of holiness. Archbishop Karol Wojtyła, known later as Pope John Paul II, conducted the funeral. On December 25, 1981 the Community received Papal approval. The canonization for Mother Paula began on November 9, 1993.