Sára Salkaházi
Hungarian Roman Catholic religious sister (1899–1944)
Feast: 11 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Sára Salkaházi had been a teacher, bookbinder, milliner and successful journalist when she asked to join the Sisters of Social Service, founded in 1923 by Margit Slachta; at first the sisters turned this chain-smoking journalist away.
Received at last, she defended the Jews and was killed for it: on 27 December 1944 in Budapest, before the firing squad shot, she turned with inexplicable calm to face her executioners. She was the society's first martyr.
The miracles
As a martyr, beatified without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A journalist turned sister who defended the Jews and died a martyr for it.
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.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Sára Salkaházi
- Wikidata Q51772 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Sára Salkaházi (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.