From Thessalonica to Monastir /Bitola/ or on the track of a Vincentian Sister of Charity

The article examines the activities of a French Catholic missionary – the Vincentian sister Marie Violet /Violetta/, from the end of the 19th to the 1920s. 

On the basis of preserved documents, her journey in the Balkans has been traced: in Salonica, Constantinople and especially in Monastir. Although the mission of the Vincentians in Macedonia underlay the conversion of the local Bulgarian population to Catholicism, the activities of Sister Violetta and her helpers were mainly focused on hospital care and education. 

The text also concentrates on the impressions the missionary gained from the Ilinden- Preobrazhenie Uprising in Bitola, on the help that Vincentian sisters provided to the suffering Bulgarian population, as well as on their care for the wounded and sick during the First Balkan War. 

Keywords: Vincentian sisters, mission, Sister Violetta, Macedonia, Salonica, Bitola