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Ulma Family Beatified on a ‘Day of Joy’ in Poland
National Catholic Register ^ | September 10, 2023 | Shannon Mullen

Posted on 09/11/2023 2:03:49 PM PDT by common-sense-man-1776

........."Early on March 24, 1944, a Nazi patrol surrounded the home of Józef and Wiktoria Ulma on the outskirts of Markowa. They discovered the Jewish people hiding on the Ulma farm and executed them. The Nazi police then killed 31-year-old Wiktoria, who was pregnant and in premature labor, and 44-year-old Józef outside their home. An additional order sealed the fate of the remaining family members: “Kill the children, too.” Stanisława, 7; Barbara, 6; Władysław, 5; Franciszek, almost 4; Antoni, 2; and Maria, 1, were executed.".........."The seventh Ulma child to die was the couple’s unnamed son, who was in the process of being born. The boy had been incorrectly described in some news reports as the first unborn child to be beatified, a key detail that the Vatican recently clarified. Though there was no time to baptize the child, what transpired instead was what the Church calls a “baptism of blood.”.....

(Excerpt) Read more at ewtn.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: beatified; family; ulma
Red Martyrdom, giving one’s physical life, bearing witness unto death. Red is associated with the shedding of blood.
1 posted on 09/11/2023 2:03:49 PM PDT by common-sense-man-1776
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To: common-sense-man-1776

The Nazi occupation in Poland was more harsh than in “Germanic” nations to the West. They made an example out of people like this so others wouldn’t hide the Jews, but many still did to the credit of the Polish nation.


2 posted on 09/11/2023 2:39:22 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: common-sense-man-1776
Another good reason to hate Nazism.

God Bless and grant eternal rest to the Ulma family and the Jews murdered with them.

3 posted on 09/11/2023 2:43:03 PM PDT by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: common-sense-man-1776
The caption is Polish.


Wiktoria i Józef Ulmowie z dziećmi

4 posted on 09/11/2023 2:44:15 PM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: Dr. Franklin

Hiding a Jew in Poland was punishable by death.
In France just by few months of jail.


5 posted on 09/11/2023 2:45:41 PM PDT by AZJeep
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To: common-sense-man-1776

Pure evil. How could German soldiers live with themselves?


6 posted on 09/11/2023 3:46:43 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Midwesterner53

They were early leftist democraps.


7 posted on 09/11/2023 5:06:31 PM PDT by curious7
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To: Bounced2X

Wiktoria and Józef Ulma with their children.


8 posted on 09/11/2023 5:08:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: AZJeep
Hiding a Jew in Poland was punishable by death.

For that person's entire family, and any acquaitances they could find. There are more "Righteous Gentiles" from Poland at Yad Vashem than from any other country.

And to think that Algore got the Nobel Peace Prize, instead of Irena Sendler.

9 posted on 09/11/2023 5:11:01 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Dr. Franklin

Poles got it from all sides. The Nazis, the Bolsheviks and the Banderites.


10 posted on 09/11/2023 5:12:58 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
Wiktoria and Józef Ulma with their children.

Thanks

11 posted on 09/11/2023 6:04:27 PM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: Dr. Franklin

In March during a trip to Poland I visited a small Warsaw photo museum dedicated to those who hid Jews. Many such stories.


12 posted on 09/11/2023 7:00:38 PM PDT by jimfree (My 20 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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