Mother Maria Tomea of the Holy Trinity – Apolonia Koperska
Date and place of birth: April 14, 1887, Warsaw, Poland
Date of entry: July 6, 1929
Date of vestition: March 1, 1930
Date of profession: March 7, 1931 (temporary), March 21, 1934 (perpetual)
Offices in the monastery: sub-prioress and novice mistress
Other information:
- Spent her childhood in Berlin
- Doctor of Philosophy at the Catholic University in Freiburg (studies financed by the Plater-Zyberkówna Institute)
- 1904-1915 member of the hidden Congregation of the Sisters Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
- lecturer at Warsaw University, Faculty of Humanities, pedagogical section, lectures on Catholic psychology
- translated articles and books:
- Initiation into the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, ed. E. Peuillaube
- wrote books and articles:
- Die Stellung der religiösen Orden zu den Profanwissenschaften im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert (doctoral dissertation, Freiburg 1914)
- Woman Citizen, in Social Guide 1 (1919/20), 37-42.
- Principles of Christian politics, Poznań 1921
- The social duty of Catholics in the modern era, “Gość Niedzielny,” 11 (1923) 3-6; “Gość Niedzielny,” 15 (1923) 6-7; “Gość Niedzielny,” 46 (1925) 6-7.
- Christ and education, Krakow 1927
- St. Benedict, patriarch of monastic life in the West : 480-547, Poznań 1934
- Dominicans and their posts in the Archdiocese of Warsaw, in “Wiadomości Archidyecezyalne Warszawskie”, 8 (1918), nos. 5-6, p. 267
- cooperated with the publishing house St. Adalbert’s Bookstore in Poznań as censor and with Bishop Adamski
