The Marian Martyrs of Rosica

28 The Marian Martyrs of Rosica Special examples of Christian attitudes toward the Jews are given by: • SISTER JULIA RODZINSKA (1885-1942). A Dominican, who gave her life in the death camp at Stutthof, voluntarily serving Jewish women dying of typhoid fever. • SISTER EWA NOIDZEWSKA (1885-1942) and SISTER MARTA WOLOWSKA (1879-1942). Sisters of the Immaculate Conception from Slonin, shot and killed for sav- ing Jewish children. • REV. JOSEPH PAWLOWSKI (1890-1942). The Rector of the seminary in Kielce who endangered his life to save Jews and was killed for this in Dachau. • SISTER KLEMENSA STASZEWSKA (1890-1943). Ursuline Sister from Rokiciny Podhalanskie, arrested for aid- ing young Jewish women. She died in the camp at Auschwitz. • REV. MICHAEL PIASZCZYNSKI (1885-1940) The Rector of the seminary in Lomza, supporter of religious dialogue with Judaism. He referred to Jews as “our elder brothers in faith.” In the camp, when the Jews were refused a meal, he gave them his own meager ration of bread. THE MESSAGE OF THE MARTYRS Through this process of beatification, the Church is announcing the glory of the Savior who suffered and became victorious in the battle for faith through all the martyrs of the world at the end of our century. This is a century which will go down in history as a period of unprecedented degradation of humanity, as a time of barbaric wars of genocide perpetrat- ed on entire nations, and of systemic hatred toward virtue, as well as of other crimes. This beatification is a great testimony