Both Tyler sisters are in the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth order the same order of nuns that played an instrumental role in the beginning of Tyler's Mother Frances Hospital. They purchased the hospital in 1947. The Most Rev. Bishop Edmond Carmody, outgoing bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Tyler, said it's a connection not many know. This happened in Poland, way back in the Nazi regime. He said the beatification of the martyred nuns does not require miracles performed in their name as does the canonization of saints in the Catholic church.
Martyrs are people who died for their faith, for goodness, for principles, for values.
Sister Honesta said 600 nuns from the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth order all over the world attended the beatification ceremony. The bodies of Sister Stella and her 10 companions were exhumed in 1945, according to an article by Sister Mary Joan Jacobs of the Immaculate Conception Province in Philadelphia. She recorded they were dressed in full habits and most of them had their hands folded, as in prayer. They now rest in peace near their beloved Fara, or parish church, in Nowogrodek. The process to canonize the sisters began in 1991 in the Metropolitan Curia of Warsaw, according to Sister Mary's article.