It was there that the farmer, Catholic activist and amateur photographer Jozef Ulma, 44, and his 31-year-old wife Wiktoria, made their home into “an inn where the despised, outcast, and death-stricken were welcomed and cared for,” Semeraro said at the mass, living “a holiness that was not only marital but was fully embedded in their entire family.”įor this “gesture of hospitality and care, of mercy,” the family “ paid the highest price of martyrdom,” Semeraro said. Anna Codutti, Breaking News Editor 91 Barry Lewis, College and High School Sports Editor 91 Contact Administration Misti. Follow the latest breaking news and developments from India and around the world with Hindustan Times newsdesk. Experience Editor (News) News Editor and Desk Head - TV9 Digital Freelance Journalist News Editor and Head - English Digital Deputy Editor Deputy News.
More than 30,000 pilgrims, as well as Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, attended a beatification mass on Sunday conducted by an envoy for Pope Francis, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, in the family’s hometown in southeastern Poland. The Ulma family of Markowa, Poland, were murdered by Nazis on March 24, 1944, along with the eight Jews they were sheltering. Get the latest International World News Headlines with the Irish Independent covering Europe, Middle East, North & South America, Asia & Africa. In saving lives, they lost their own, and now all nine members of a Catholic family are a step closer to sainthood for their heroism in sheltering Jews during World War Two. Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio jailed for 22 years for Capitol riot.
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