Friday, August 09, 2019

Blessed Friars Michał Tomaszek and Zbigniew Strzałkowski, Martyrs


Fathers Michał Tomaszek and Zbigniew Strzałkowski 
were murdered by Shining Path guerillas 
in Pariacoto, Peru, on August 9, 1991.

"... [I]t was not a good time for Peru: the seeds of terrorism had been sown and produced much hatred, and with the participation of foreign elements, the soil was stained with the blood of martyrs – Fathers Michał and Zbigniew, and two weeks later Alessandro Dordi, a priest in Valle del Santa in the Diocese of Chimbote – and with the deaths of many other Peruvians and foreigners."  Finish reading here.

Today we remember the martyr, St. Edith Stein as well as the holocaust of Nagasaki...


This photo from Auschwitz doesn't show Sr. Benedicta of the Cross, 
but it does show nuns in habits entering the camp with the others ...
It' helps us understand that Edith Stein truly was 
called on behalf of her people ... how many people ...



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