The Novogrudok martyrs (alternative names are known: 11 martyrs from Novogrudok , Adele Mardosevich and her associates ) - a group of eleven Catholic nuns who were shot by the Gestapo on August 1, 1943 in Novogrudok , on the territory of modern Belarus . All the nuns belonged to the female monastic congregation "Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth" ( Nazareth ). Blessed in the Roman Catholic Church in 2000.
| Novogrudok martyrs | |
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| Birth | |
| Death | August 1, 1943 |
| Is revered | Catholic Church |
| Beatified | March 5, 2000 |
| In the face | blessed |
| Day of Remembrance | August 1 |
| Asceticism | martyrs |
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History of Martyrdom
The nuns arrived in Novogrudok on September 4, 1929 at the request of Bishop Zygmunt Lozinsky [1] . In 1941, during the occupation of Western Belarus by the Soviet authorities, they were expelled from the monastery and lived with parishioners of the Catholic parish [1] . During the German occupation, they returned to the monastery.
In 1942, the German occupation authorities launched repressions against the Jewish and Polish population of Novogrudok. Most of the Jewish population of the city was shot. The Polish population was also persecuted: 60 people were shot, including two priests . A similar wave of repression repeated in 1943. On July 18, 1943, 120 residents of Novogrudok and priest Zenkevich were arrested.
The abbess of the monastery, sister Maria Stella, turned to the German authorities with a request to release the arrested, replacing them with herself. On July 31, 1943, German authorities arrested 11 nuns who, on the next day, August 1, 1943, were shot in a forest near Novogrudok.
List of Martyrs
“My God, if you need a sacrifice of life, let them shoot us better than those who have families - we even pray for this” [1] .
- Adela Mardosevich (sister Maria Stella) - abbess of the monastery
- Jadwiga Carolina Jacques (sister Maria Imelda)
- Anna Kokolovich (sister of Maria Raimunda)
- Jozef Hrobot (sister of Maria Canuta)
- Helena Sherpka (sister of Maria Gvidona)
- Eleanor Anelya Yuzvik (sister of Maria Daniela )
- Julia Rapey (sister Maria Sergius)
- Evgenia Matskevich (sister Maria Kaniziya)
- Paulina Borovik (sister Maria Felicita)
- Leocadia Matushevskaya (sister of Maria Heliodora)
- Veronika Narmontovich (sister Maria Boromei).
Praise
On the day of the execution, July 31, one of the nuns who was not part of the hostage group - Malgozhata Banas - carried obedience in the hospital. Upon learning of the execution of a group of nuns, she found the place of their execution and, subsequently, until her death, she was the guardian of their burial place, as well as the church church [1] . Perhaps one of the sisters was buried still wounded, alive, since on March 19, 1945 , after the bodies of the shot women were exhumed, the nun Speransa Bartnovskaya wrote:
| Most struck by the pose of sister Kanuta. Most likely, she was only wounded, so she squatted in the corner of the grave and froze with woven hands on her knees, bowing her head to the ground, as if thinking, as if in a blessing ... [1] |
In 1991, the remains of the sisters were reburied in a sarcophagus in the chapel of the Farny Church [1] .
On September 18, 1991, the process of beatification of the Novogrudok martyrs began. On March 5, 2000, Pope John Paul II ranked Adela Mardosevich and her associates as blessed [1] .
The relics of the sisters rest in the Farny Church of Novogrudok . At the place of their former burial, a memorial stele is installed next to the temple. Memorial Day - August 1 .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Irina Anikevich. 11 Nazareth sisters from Novogrudok gave their lives to save more than a hundred people they did not know . Life Grodno Truth (August 1, 2012). Date of treatment May 22, 2016.
Links
- The article "Saints and Blessed" on the website catholic.by (Russian)
- Irina Anikevich. 11 Nazareth sisters from Novogrudok gave their lives to save more than a hundred people they did not know . Life Grodno Truth (August 1, 2012). Date of treatment May 22, 2016.
- [1] (inaccessible link)