Maciej was born on 24 February 1884 in Marszowice, a parish of Niegowić, in the archdiocese of Kraków (Poland) into a deeply religious and numerous family, the son of Antonio and Salomea Kowalska. In the years 1891-1894 he attended the folk school in Niegowić and during this time he received his First Communion. From 1895 he attended the local high school in Wadowice and was a pupil of the Carmelite boarding school, where he met St. Rafał Kalinowski, renewer of Carmel in Poland, whose personality and holiness exerted a great influence on Maciej's later life.

In 1901 in Czerna, he received the Carmelite habit, becoming Anselm of St Andrew Corsini, and in 1902 he made his religious profession. In the novitiate, enthusiastic about the discovery that he was a «son of Mary», he dedicated himself to her. When he decided, «I want and must be holy,» he remained faithful to this ideal until the end of his life. He studied theology in Rome, where he was ordained a priest on 25^th of July 1907. From 1909 to 1918 he taught theology in Kraków and Vienna, and was also tutor to clerics. He was also known for his extensive pastoral activity as a spiritual father, director of spiritual exercises and preacher. In Kraków in 1914 he founded and directed the Confraternity of the Child Jesus of Prague. In the years 1918-1920 he was prior in Wadowice where he founded a minor seminary. In 1920 he was appointed by the General Definitory as the first Provincial of the resurrected Polish Province of the Discalced Carmelites. He tried to recover the monasteries that had been closed and with care he took care of the deep spiritual life of the Carmelite communities.

In 1921, with the collaboration of the Venerable Servant of God, Teresa of St. Joseph (Janina Kierocińska, 1885-1946), he founded the Congregation of the Carmelite Sisters of the Child Jesus to which he transmitted the charism of Divine childhood according to the «little way» of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus. Since 1935 the Congregation has been aggregated to the Order.

From 1925 he stayed in Rome, where he was entrusted with the task of organizing the International College of the Order, in the years 1926-45 he was its first rector, from 1935 also the dean of the Theological Faculty. In the years 1931-1947 he also served as a general councillor; he was entrusted with the task of carrying out visitations in various provinces of the Order. By appointment of Pope Pius XI he became Apostolic Visitator of ecclesiastical seminaries in Poland, of national colleges in Rome. In 1940 Pope Pius XII appointed him consultor to the Congregation for Catholic Seminaries and Universities.

On his return to Poland in 1947, he served as Father Provincial three more times. He always bore witness to a devout priestly and Carmelite life, he took care to keep up the level of spiritual life of the brothers and sisters in Carmel; he was the spiritual father of many consecrated and lay people, whom he led to holiness. He distinguished himself for his fervent charity to his neighbour, for commitment, serenity of mind, prudence, humility and simplicity. With paternal charity he opened himself to the needs of others. He also took care of the formation of the Congregation he founded, elaborated its Constitutions and made a bequest to them of a large number of his spiritual writings.

The last 10 years of his life were spent in the monastery of the Discalced Carmelites in Łódź. Despite weak health and spiritual experiences, he took part in the acts of community life until the end, he abandoned himself to the apostolate of prayer and suffering. His whole life was an example of patience and fidelity to the Carmelite vocation. The secret of his spiritual life was expressed in the words: «All my life I have exercised myself in the practice of the charity of the Child Jesus.»

He died with a reputation for holiness on October 15, 1969. His earthly remains rest in the vestibule of the church of the Discalced Carmelites in Łódź. The process of beatification in the Archdiocese of Łódź began on February 2, 2002, and took place in the years 2002-2008. The acts of the trial were transmitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome.

Bina (come tutti la chiamano) è la primogenita di nove tra fratelli e sorelle, cui fa quasi le veci della mamma, che, assieme alla nonna è ammalata.

Si iscrive presto all'AC. Incaricata diocesana Fanciulli di AC, servizio che svolge per ventisette anni, diventa contemporaneamente presidente diocesana della GF. Nel 1913, fonda il Terz'Ordine carmelitano e lo guida come Priora fino alla morte. Dà vita all'oratorio del Sacro Cuore, frequentato tra gli altri da Aldo Moro, dove maturano molte vocazioni sacerdotali e religiose. Nel 1928, fonda l'Unitalsi pugliese. È delegata regionale delle Pontificie Opere Missionarie.

Nel corso della sua attività di catechista, durata cin quant'anni, Isabella "ha affiancato l'opera dei sacerdoti in maniera meravigliosa e ha consegnato ai suoi allievi pensieri eucaristici e biblici, che solo una persona ispirata poteva produrre, vista la sua preparazione culturale da autodidatta".

L'inchiesta diocesana sulla "vita, virtù e fama di santità" si è chiusa il 9 dicembre 2006. 

Teresa Ysseldijk was born on November 13, 1897, in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, the daughter of a Catholic family full of faith. After a stay of 6 years in Ochtrup, Germany, where her father died, she lived with her family in Enschede until she entered the convent.

Teresa suffered a lot during her childhood and began very early in life to love her suffering. From her pious mother she learned to love the Mother of God and the Sacred Heart of Jesus. When her health improved, she asked to enter the Carmel of the Divine Heart of Jesus. She entered the convent in Tilburg on October 2, 1917, takin the name of Sr Mary Teresa of the Most Holy Trinity. She professed her vows on July 2, 1919. Driven by a great zeal for the missions, she travelled to the USA with seven other sisters in December 1919.

Shortly after her arrival in the new world, she was stricken with an illness, a serious kidney disease, discovered too late by doctors. She endured this further suffering for five years in the convent of St. Charles, Missouri, with indescribable patience and a smile on her lips. She wanted to serve God in the Order, working in silent union with Him.

When work was no longer possible, she bore her pain in silence, hidden from the world.

She died a holy death on March 10, 1926, in St. Mary's Hospital in St. Louis.

On November 12, 2015, the decree of validity was granted to the Inquiry on her «life, virtue and reputation of holiness».

Clare of Carmel was born in San Miguel, El Salvador, on October 12, 1857 to Carmen López and Daniel Quirós López. Her parents decided to consult the saints to choose the name of their daughter and discovered that the day was dedicated to Saint Clare of Assisi, so they did not hesitate to call her Clare of Carmel.

On October 31 of the same year, she received the sacrament of baptism in the church of Santo Domingo. When she was one year old, her parents separated and the girl was taken to Santa Tecla, a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador, where she lived until her death.

In 1872, at the age of 15 and at the request of her mother, Chiara married the Costa Rican Félix Alfredo Alvarado, with whom she had six children; but at the birth of the last child she was abandoned by her husband. As a teenager, Clare was involved in church affairs. Over the years, she carried out humanitarian works and made known to other women the importance of serving God, the Virgin and their neighbour.

Seeing her charitable virtues, Monsignor Antonio Adolfo Pérez y Aguilar, Archbishop of San Salvador, allowed her to use the premises of the Belén monastery (the current Belén school in Santa Tecla) to work with poor and abandoned girls, declaring her, after she had set out on the path of a religious, as mother superior Clare Mary of Jesus.

On October 14, 1916, she founded the Third Order of the Discalced Teresan Carmelites of Saint Joseph. At the suggestion of Fr. Luke of Mary most Holy, former General of the Order of Carmel, the congregation took the name of Tertiary Carmelites of St. Joseph.

She died on December 8, 1928. Her remains are buried in the chapel of the Belén school.

On October 31, 2008, the decree of validity was granted to the Diocesan Inquiry into her «life, virtue and reputation of holiness».