The Marian Martyrs of Rosica

11 Introduction their lives and the nature of their heroic sufferings and deaths. The authors of these testimonials were eyewitnesses to the events described — which makes their testimony uniquely important. Finally, the last chapter of the book is different in character from the preceding eyewitness accounts. It is a memoir. It describes true historical facts but in a literary rendering, written 20 years later. Therefore, it cannot be regarded as a strict chron- icle of the facts, and some of its dialogue is obviously a literary creation. Tadeusz Gorski, MIC