She became a professor shortly after her teens, at a time when it was hard to get such a position.
In the middle of her teaching career, she joined the military.
She later rediscovered the Christian faith, and was baptized.
She was warned about the Nazi troops approaching, but she stayed when she found out that her sister couldn't come. She was captured and died in the gas chamber.
After becoming a saint, many people began praying to her to save a young girl, named Benedicta McCarthy, who was in the hospital with a coma.
