Slovakian 16 year-old to be beatified

Thursday, August 23rd, 2018

A Slovakian girl who died when she was 16 will be beatified as a martyr in Slovakia, seven decades after she was shot in front of her family for resisting rape by a drunken Soviet soldier.

“The story of 16-year-old Anna Kolesarova offers a strong message, of course, for the younger generation,” Archbishop Bernard Bober of Kosice, Slovakia, says. Read more

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