Katarzyna Szalajko

3 weeks ago | thebostonpilot.com | Katarzyna Szalajko |Lucia Silecchia |Greg Kandra |Jenna Cooper

Your browser does not support the audio element. WARSAW, Poland (OSV News) -- Their names may have faded from history books, but on May 31, the Church officially remembered them forever. In a solemn ceremony in Braniewo, northeastern Poland, 15 nuns from the Congregation of St. Catherine Virgin and Martyr, were beatified -- recognized as martyrs who gave their lives during the final, brutal months of World War II. The sisters were killed in 1945 as Soviet troops advanced into the region.

3 weeks ago | globalsistersreport.org | Jack Jenkins |Katarzyna Szalajko

Their names may have faded from history books, but on May 31, the church officially remembered them forever. In a solemn ceremony in Braniewo, northeastern Poland, 15 nuns from the Congregation of St. Catherine Virgin and Martyr, were beatified — recognized as martyrs who gave their lives during the final, brutal months of World War II. The sisters were killed in 1945 as Soviet troops advanced into the region.

3 weeks ago | ncronline.org | Jack Jenkins |Katarzyna Szalajko

A nun carries the reliquary during a ceremony on May 31, 2025, in Braniewo, Poland, as the church beatifies 15 nuns from the Congregation of St. Catherine Virgin and Martyr, martyred in 1945. (OSV News/Courtesy of Polish bishops' conference) Warsaw, Poland — June 3, 2025 Their names may have faded from history books, but on May 31, the church officially remembered them forever.

3 weeks ago | detroitcatholic.com | Katarzyna Szalajko |Charles Fox |Greg Erlandson

WARSAW, Poland (OSV News) ─ Their names may have faded from history books, but on May 31, the Church officially remembered them forever. In a solemn ceremony in Braniewo, northeastern Poland, 15 nuns from the Congregation of St. Catherine Virgin and Martyr, were beatified -- recognized as martyrs who gave their lives during the final, brutal months of World War II. The sisters were killed in 1945 as Soviet troops advanced into the region.

1 month ago | detroitcatholic.com | Katarzyna Szalajko |Charles Fox |Greg Erlandson

WARSAW, Poland (OSV News) ─ In one of the first beatifications under Pope Leo XIV, the church in Poland is preparing to celebrate the beatification of Father Stanislaw Streich, a humble parish priest murdered at the altar in 1938.