The Monastery of Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth in Komańcza () opened in May 1928. It was established as a house of the Assembly of Nuns of the Holy Family of Nazareth, in the diocese of

Przemyśl Przemyśl () is a city in southeastern Poland with 56,466 inhabitants, as of December 2023. Data for territorial unit 1862000. In 1999, it became part of the Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Subcarpathian Voivodeship. It was previously the capital of Prz ...

. At the beginning of 1927 in a rented house lived five sisters, working mainly in the parish church and the

vestry A vestry was a committee for the local secular and ecclesiastical government of a parish in England, Wales and some English colony, English colonies. At their height, the vestries were the only form of local government in many places and spen ...

. The Swiss-style building with the brick ground flour and wooden upper floors was built on a mountain meadow by the builders from

Rymanów Rymanów (; or ; ) is a town located in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in the southeastern tip of Poland, with 3,585 inhabitants. It is a capital of a separate gmina, commune within powiat of Krosno, Krosno County. Rymanów is situated in the hea ...

in 1929, and consecrated in 1931. During the Nazi German occupation in the monastery quartered German soldiers. At the same time nuns hid wanted priests and Jewish people. Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski was, from 29 October 1955 to 28 October 1956, interned in the monastery .

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