Beatification Date Announced for Married Couple and Seven Children Martyred by Nazis; Youngest Child Will Be First Unborn Baby Beatified in...

[Michie]

...Church History

Father Witold Burda, the postulator for the Ulma family, has said that a Bible was found inside the Ulma house in which the parable of the Good Samaritan had been underlined in a red pen.

The beatification date has been announced for Józef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children, who were killed by the Nazis for hiding a Jewish family in their home in Poland.

The Archdiocese of Przemyska announced Tuesday that the entire Ulma family — including one unborn child — will be beatified on Sept. 10.

Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, the prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, will preside over the beatification ceremony in Markowa, the village in southeast Poland where the Ulma family was executed in 1944.

Pope Francis recognized the martyrdom of the couple and their children in a decree signed in December. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center has honored the Ulmas as Righteous Among the Nations for the sacrifice of their lives.

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Beatification Date Announced for Married Couple with Seven Children Martyred by Nazis, Including One Unborn Child

Father Witold Burda, the postulator for the Ulma family, has said that a Bible was found inside the Ulma house in which the parable of the Good Samaritan had been underlined in a red pen.

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[narnia59]

Well now that's more than a little bit interesting -- that an unborn child may be canonized. It has broader implications about what happens to children who die without baptism, which the Church has not defined except we entrust them to the mercy of God.

 

[Michie]

Well now that's more than a little bit interesting -- that an unborn child may be canonized. It has broader implications about what happens to children who die without baptism, which the Church has not defined except we entrust them to the mercy of God.

I thought of that as well. I would love to hear a more detailed explanation from the Church on this beatification.