Sister Anastazja, author of popular culinary books, has died

"Our Sister Anastazja is already in the Father's arms" - it was written on Sunday morning on the Facebook profile of the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Love.

On that day, the sister "went to her Father's house," they were informed.

Sister Anastazja - actual Krystyna - started monastic life in 1973. Her task in the assembly was, among others, cooking for children with disabilities.

"As a young girl, I went to work in Czechoslovakia, I was twenty years old. I worked there in a glassworks, it was very hard work. The sister of my friend with whom I lived in the employee hotel was a nun in the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Love. My roommate talked a lot about her sister, read the letters she received from her. I wanted to live in a similar way, serve God and people," she said in an interview with the portal. Aleteia.

The sister also worked in the kitchen of Jesuit priests in Krakow. "She was guided by a simple rule: an apron, the sign of the cross and products from happy hens," wrote "Gość Niedzielny".

The nun's guidebooks on culinary topics brought enormous popularity, including: "103 Cakes by Sister Anastasia".

A dozen or so titles sold four million copies.

"We deal with cuisine from the heart when we put as much love as possible into what we do, and we love the people who benefit from the fruits of our work. Throughout all the years I have been cooking, I have tried to be guided by one rule - cook as if you were cooking for Jesus himself," Sister Anastazja told Aletea.