Lettera di suor Maria Paschalis Jahn, che fu uccisa l’11 maggio 1945 durante un tentativo di violenza da parte di un soldato sovietico all’età di 29 anni. Si tratta di una lettera indirizzata ai familiari…

Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko was born on 14 September 1947 in Okopy near Suchowola, near Białystok in north-eastern Poland. The deep religious atmosphere of his family, permeated by Marian devotion, moulded in him from his youth…

At St Bartholomew’s, one of his monastic objects, known as the ‘Paraman’, is preserved, which every monk always wears under his surplice. On the Paraman, which bears the embroidered Passion of Jesus, is written ‘He…

On the morning of 9 September 1990, while waiting for the train that was to take him to his parish to celebrate the liturgy, Father Men’ was killed with an axe by an unknown person….

Omeljan Kovč, Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest killed in a gas chamber on 25 March 1944 and cremated in the ovens of Majdanek. Omeljan Kovč, a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest from 1922, was parish priest of…

Cross distributed clandestinely in Albania after the regime banned any manifestation of religious worship in 1967, Share the post “Cross clandestinely distributed in Albania” FacebookTwitterShare…

Relics of the martyrs Vinçenc Prennushi, titular archbishop of Durres (+19 March 1949), Fr Serafim Koda (+11 May 1947), Fr Jak Bushati (+12 September 1949), Fr Dedë Malaj (+12 May 1959), Fr Anton Muzaj (+1948),…

Blessed Theophilus Matulionis, bishop of Kaisiadorys in Lithuania, died a martyr’s death in 1962, after sixteen years of imprisonment and persecution by the Soviet regime. Share the post “Relic of Theophilus Matulionis” FacebookTwitterShare…