Today, March 30, in addition to Holy Saturday (previously, Glory), the Catholic church celebrates the day of Blessed Maria Restituta Kafka, virgin and martyr, unfortunately little known among believers and even less among non-believers. But, since his life was interesting and instructive enough, we will explain it. He was born in Moravia and, when he was two years old, he moved to Vienna with his parents and five siblings. As a young girl she worked as a maid and as a saleswoman in a tobacconist. Then she went on to work as a nurse. He entered the Hospital Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity. She became head nurse of the operating room at the Mödling hospital.
The problems started when Adolf Hitler took power and, thanks to the Anschluss, Germany annexed Austria. Kafka (the Restituta, not the other) was a staunch opponent of the Nazis. He said that Hitler was a madman and, moreover, he hung Christs in the hospital rooms. A doctor reported her to the authorities. The Gestapo arrested her, not only for hanging Christs, but also for having written a poem mocking Hitler. She was sentenced to death and in 1943 she was guillotined. Many decades later, the glorious Pope John Paul II beatified her.
If I had had a daughter, I would have liked to name her Restituta Kafka. Just as the children named Josep Oriol were simply called Oriol, my Restituta Kafka would have been called Kafka and down.
-Kafka, leave Super Mario and go to lunch!
In the same way that there are Franciscan, Dominican, Benedictine or Poor Clare religious congregations, so that their figure does not fall into oblivion some good soul should found a Congregation of Kafkaian Sisters, or something similar.
