Every July 13, the Catholic Church remembers the martyrdom of Marianna Biernacka, Blessed Polish that during World War II gave her life to save her daughter -in -law from Nazi and the son she had in her belly.
The Polish Episcopal Conference indicates that Marianna Biernacka, one of the 108 beatified martyrs of World War II, The patron sagras is considered.
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Marianna was born in Poland in 1888. At the age of 20, he married Ludwik Biernacki. Six children were born in their marriage, but four died shortly after birth. Their surviving children were called Leokadia and Stanisław.
Marianna and Ludwik kept their family working on a 20 -hectare farm in the Polish city of Lipsk. After her husband’s death, Marianna only lived with her son, since her daughter Leokadia had married.
As of July 11, 1939, after his son Stanisław married Anna Née Szymczyk, Marianna lived accompanied by this young partner, showing an attitude of concern, goodness and maternal love towards the spouses and her children.
On July 1, 1943 there were mass arrests of residents in Lipsk and its surroundings, in retaliation for the murder of a German police. The Nazis arrested the son of Marianna and his wife, who was pregnant, to kill them.
Marianna knelt before a Nazi soldier and asked permission to go instead of her daughter -in -law, saying: “Lord, where will it go? Have mercy. A child is here in his belly”.
Then, addressing his family, he said: “I am old and you young people. You must live.”
The German accessed Marianna’s proposal, who along with her son Stanisław and other detainees, was transported to Grodno prison, in Belarus.
On July 13, 1943, the Germans shot at Marianna Biernacka and 49 Lipsk residents In the forts behind Naumovichi, a town located a few kilometers north of Grodno.
A place of special veneration of Beata Marianna Biernacka is the parish of Our Lady of the Angel in Lipsk.
Marianna Biernacka was beatified along with 107 martyrs by Pope San Juan Paul II on June 13, 1999, in Warsaw (Poland).
The Holy Father established on June 12 as the day of the liturgical memories of the Beata Marianna and 107 martyrs of World War II.
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