The Marian Martyrs of Rosica

50 The Marian Martyrs of Rosica cerning the deaths of the priests, or else he didn’t want to reveal them. According to the recollections of the Sisters, (Superior General Josepha Zuk and Paulina Latyszkiewicz), a few weeks after the Sisters returned from Rosica the same officer who drove the Sisters back brought a secretary with a typewriter to Druja. The Sisters were summoned individually and questioned about details of the events in Rosica. They were told to keep the hearing secret. It can be surmised that the account of the hearing, later complemented and edited, found its way from a military office through the Office of the Nuncio (or else directly) to the Secretariat of State from which, after retyping and adding an Italian title, the copy was sent to the General Curia of the Marians. TEXT OF DOCUMENT March 12, 1943 By the end of 1942, the work in Rosica was getting more and more difficult, especially because people were afraid of the partisans and didn’t dare to gather in large numbers for religion classes. During the Christmas holidays, the superior of the Marians in Druja advised the Handmaids of Jesus in the Eucharist, who were working in Rosica, to leave Byelorussia (Belarus). He met with the Mother Superior to discuss the matter and tried to per- suade her to take the Sisters away. In Rosica, Fr. Anthony Leszczewicz said that he was determined to stay with the peo- ple no matter what might happen. So, the Sisters, who did not want to leave him alone, obtained the consent of their superior and also did not leave. Seven Sisters stayed in Rosica with Fr. Anthony Leszcze- wicz and Fr. George Kaszyra. They had come in the fall to replace Fr. Felix Czeczott, who was having problems with both the partisans and the Germans because he only spoke Polish. For the same reason, a seminarian from Warsaw, who also