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Marija Bernadeta Banja
Hungarian-Croatian Catholic nun, martyr and blessed (1912-1941)
Feast: 15 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
The Blessed Martyrs of Drina (Serbo-Croatian: Drinske mučenice) are the professed Sisters of the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Charity, who died during World War II. Four were killed when they jumped out of a window in Goražde on 15 December 1941, reportedly to avoid being raped by Chetniks, and the last was killed by the Chetniks in Sjetlina the following week. The five nuns were later declared martyrs and beatified by Pope Benedict XVI (delegated to Cardinal Angelo Amato) on 24 September 2011.
Summary of the Wikipedia article Blessed Martyrs of Drina, which covers Marija Bernadeta Banja with others (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Santi, beati e testimoni — BeataMarija Bernadeta Banja — BeataMarija Bernadeta Banja — Vergine e martire — 18 giugno 1912 - 15 dicembre 1941 — feast 15 dicembre
- Wikidata Q11768728 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
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