Immakulata Klicka

Immakulata Klicka (born Maria Klicka;July 18 1903 in - 16 August 2003 in Przasnysz) was a Polish Capuchin Poor Clare nun that spent nearly 80 years living a consecrated life. After being captivated in the Soldau Concentration camp she devoted her life, and her vows to the intention of a free and catholic Poland.
Maria klicka was received into the novitiate in Przasnysz on the 15th of August, 1924. Being given the name sister Maria Immakulata. She lived a consecrated life for almost 80 years. During the German invasion in 1939 she made a vow that she will not see her family. She did so with the intention for a free and catholic Poland. She survived the concentration camp in Soldau, in which all the capuchin nuns from Przasnysz were imprisoned.
She was responsible for regulations and constitutional meetings at the . She lived a very penitential life, until having health problems in 1995. Each year she would make 40-day fasts, in which she would abstain anything but bread and water, tacitly. Through out her whole consecrated life she did not eat meat. She was the author of poems about the belief and trust in God. She also embroidered the banner for the Przasnysz, Polish Scouting Association in 1957, which can be seen at the Histoy Museum of Przasnysz. At the celebrations of her 100th Birthday she welcomed her family which she did not see for the 80 years of her consecrated life,among them . Sister Immakulata died at the age of 100 and 29 days, in the Przasnysz Monastery, where she rests today.

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