Sister JOSAPHATA MYKHAILYNA HORDASHEVSKA (aka Giosafata Hordashevska) b. 1869 Lviv Ukraine, d. April 7, 1919 Greek Catholic Saint. Entered the contemplative Basilian Sisters @ age 18. When the Basilians decided to establish a woman's congregation that focused on the active life, sister Mykhailyna was chosed to lead it. First member of the Sisters Servant of Mary Immaculate, taking the name Josaphata, from Saint Josaphat.
The Sister Servants "serve Your people where the need is greatest", teaching and caring for the sick. Josaphata founded day care centers so parents could work the fields, studied herbal medicines and compounded home-made remedies for people who could not afford physicians, and read the lives of the saints to the illiterate. She and the Sisters worked in areas of typhus and cholera epidemics, helped restore churches, and taught people to make liturgical vestments.
Because many men and women of the day could not deal with a woman as governor of a congregation, she met great opposition from laity and clergy. Lies were told about her, and her fatal disease of incredibly painful, but she confronted all it with prayer, and today the Sisters have houses in Ukraine, Canada and Brazil. Canonized pending; acknowledgment of answered prayers through the intercession of Sister Josaphata are to be sent to: Sister Dominica Slawuta SSMI, Postulator, Via Cassia Antica, 104, 00191 ROMA, Italia

Photograph of Sister Hordashevska, origin unknown.
For further information about Saint Sister Hordashewska see also http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintjea.htm