{"id":27928,"date":"2013-08-01T13:44:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T17:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=27928"},"modified":"2013-09-04T07:46:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T11:46:04","slug":"blessed-martyrs-of-nowogrodek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/blessed-martyrs-of-nowogrodek\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Martyrs of Nowogrodek, the 70th anniversary of their murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Martyrs-of-Nowogrodek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27929 alignleft\" alt=\"Martyrs of Nowogrodek\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Martyrs-of-Nowogrodek-190x300.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Martyrs-of-Nowogrodek-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Martyrs-of-Nowogrodek.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a>A group of eleven <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nazarethfamily.org\/eng\/welcome\">Sisters of he Holy Family of Nazareth<\/a><\/strong> \u00a0were murdered by the Nazis in exchange for 120 condemned citizens of Nowogr\u00f3dek, current day Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>Sister Stella and her companions were murdered on this date, 1 August 1943 by the Gestapo in Novogr\u00f3dek, Hrodzyenskaya voblasts\u2019, Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>Invited by the bishop of the area to come serve the Church in the village of Novogr\u00f3dek in 1929, the Congregation of the Holy Family of Nazareth were well received by the people.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions ran high with the Nazi occupation. When it became clear that the sacrifice of life was imminent, the Sisters in conversation with their chaplain, Father Zienkiewicz, said, &#8220;My God, if sacrifice if life is needed, accept it from us and spare those who have families. We are even praying for this intention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blessed John Paul beatified the sisters on 5 March 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The Blessed Martyrs are stilled remembered with devotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of eleven Sisters of he Holy Family of Nazareth \u00a0were murdered by the Nazis in exchange for 120 condemned citizens of Nowogr\u00f3dek, current day Belarus. Sister Stella and her companions were murdered on this date, 1 August 1943 by the Gestapo in Novogr\u00f3dek, Hrodzyenskaya voblasts\u2019, Belarus. Invited by the bishop of the area &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/blessed-martyrs-of-nowogrodek\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blessed Martyrs of Nowogrodek, the 70th anniversary of their murder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2084,3259],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27928"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28357,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27928\/revisions\/28357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}