I think I managed to accomplish my mission
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Mária Slodičáková was born on October 20, 1933 in the village of Ľubica in Kežmarok district. She lost her mother when she was only a child and her father got married again shortly afterwards. They both treated Mária very unkindly, sometimes even cruelly; however, her father died in a tragic accident in 1946. Mária liked children very much, so she always yearned to be a teacher. After finishing the secondary school for girls in Kežmarok, she started to work for the building administration of the state property in Veľká Lomnica, where she only did paperwork. Later, the decision to make copies of the poem Svet by Gorazd Zvonický to the Pope Pius XII influenced the whole her life. Mária was sent to work in a plant in Svit, where she developed asthma as there was a dusty environment. Then, she went to Košice, where she became a paediatric nurse. Half a year later, she started working at the paediatric clinic, actually at the neonatal ward, where she witnessed many deaths of children shortly after birth. Another blow came, when she found out that she had a malignant disease, due to which she underwent a treatment in Hágy. After her (as she claims) miraculous recovery, she continued working as a paediatric nurse, but she arrived at a decision to devote her life to God. She professed the perpetual solemn vows in 1968. However, she never gave up working with children as they were her life. She tried to help them and to pass her faith to them. However, the State Security took notice of her activities, so she had to undergo many interrogations. In the 1990s she continued working with children in Komárno and in 2000 returned to Košice. Despite serious health problems Mária lives through the afternoon of her life with a great optimism. She has always worked and helped people, who really needed it, especially children, and it still makes her feel happy and satisfied.