To stay faithful in doing my duties in clean conscious.

Stáhnout obrázek
Maria Viera Barteková was born in Nemšová near Trenčín. In Trencin she attended the local school. In 1937 she entered the Congregation of School Sisters of Notre Dame. From her congregation she was sent to study. In 1942-1944 she conducted a novitiate in Nove Mesto nad Vahom. After the novitiate she begins to learn first in Nove Mesto nad Vahom, later in the Orava Vesely. In 1950 she is released from school services and later deported to centralizing monastery in Klastor pod Znievom. From there in 1951 forcibly moved to Šumperka where she works in hemp and flax processing factory. Since 1955 she is moved to Krasna Lipa, where she works in a factory for processing wool. In 1958 she started to work in retirement as a nurse. From 1961 to 1981 she worked at the Institute of social care for mentally disabled children Kovacska. Since 1981 she lives as a pensioner in a charity home in Beckov.