Anna Palarowska (known religiously as Sister Bernadette) was a Polish-born French supercentenarian. Her age has been validated by the European Supercentenarian Organisation (ESO) and recognised by LongeviQuest.
BIOGRAPHY
Anna Palarowska was born in the village of Mroczno in Nowe Miasto County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, on 22 October 1902. Her parents, Marianna and Ignacy, had eleven children—five sons and six daughters. Anna was baptized on 26 October 1902. She lost her mother in early childhood, after which her father, a farmer, took sole responsibility for raising the family. A deeply religious man, he ensured that his children were brought up in a spirit of strong and living faith.
Anna began working at a young age; as a teenager, she cared for a child in a landed gentry household. By the age of 19, she already felt called to religious life, but due to poor health, she was unable to enter the Congregation until six years later. She began her religious life in Pniewy in 1927. She made her first vows on 12 July 1930. Shortly afterward, on 26 July, she traveled to France with the first group of sisters to care for girls who had come from Poland to work in a silk factory.
She served in Ferrière from 1930 to 1931, in Ucel from 1931 to 1944, in Virieu from 1944 to 1971, in Grenoble from 1971 to 1972, and in Scauri, Italy, from 1972 to 1973, where she became seriously ill. In 1973, she returned to Grenoble, where she managed the kitchen at the “Bon Accueil” home for elderly women.
Anna Palarowska passed away in Grenoble in the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France, on 2 November 2013, at the age of 111 years, 11 days.
RECOGNITION
Palarowska’s age was verified by Antoine Demarais, and was validated by the ESO on 29 May 2020.
ATTRIBUTION
* “Dziękujemy Ci Panie za naszą s. Bernadettę” – Głos Katolicki, 24 November 2013
GALLERY
(Source: Głos Katolicki)
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