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A portrait of the Ulma family was unveiled at their beatification Mass on Sept. 10 in Markowa, Poland. (photo: Polish Bishops’ Conference)
Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children were martyred during World War II for sheltering two Jewish families from the Nazis.
On a “day of joy” in Poland, the Catholic Church on Sunday for the first time beatified an entire family at once: Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children, who were martyred during World War II for sheltering two Jewish families from the Nazis.
“It would be misleading if the day of the beatification of the Ulma family served only to bring back to memory the terror of the atrocities perpetrated by their executioners, on whom, by the way, the judgment of history already weighs heavily,” Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, said Sept. 10 in his homily at a beatification Mass attended by some 30,000 people in the family’s village of Markowa, in southeastern Poland. …
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