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Wiktoria Ulma is pictured in an undated photo with three of her children and the children of relatives outside the Ulma home in Markowa, a village in southeastern Poland. Wikotria, her husband, Józef, and their seven children were executed March 24, 1944, by Nazis who discovered that the family had been sheltering eight Jews who had escaped internment by German occupying forces. Ulma girls Stasia and Basia are pictured in the middle near their mother, who is holding son Wlodzimierz. (CNS photo courtesy National Remembrance Institute)

Wiktoria Ulma is pictured in an undated photo with three of her children and the children of relatives outside the Ulma home in Markowa, a village in southeastern Poland. Wikotria, her husband, Józef, and their seven children were executed March 24, 1944, by Nazis who discovered that the family had been sheltering eight Jews who had escaped internment by German occupying forces. Ulma girls Stasia and Basia are pictured in the middle near their mother, who is holding son Wlodzimierz. (CNS photo courtesy National Remembrance Institute)

Europe

Vatican says Ulma child was born during mother’s execution

By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — With a beatification Mass for the Ulma family set for Sept. 10, the Vatican emphasized that all...

Catholic News ServiceSeptember 5, 2023

World

Martyred family’s ‘unprecedented’ beatification prompts theological reflection, pro-life prayers

UPDATE 9/5/2023: The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints clarified Sept. 5 that in including the Ulmas’ seventh child in the family’s Sept. 10...

Maria WieringSeptember 4, 2023

Spanish

El Papa Francisco instituye una comisión para compartir las historias de los nuevos mártires

CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) — El Vaticano establecerá una nueva comisión para identificar y catalogar a los cristianos que han muerto por la fe...

Justin McLellanJuly 8, 2023

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