“Those who live in accordance with the will and pleasure of God are blessed! Beatitude is the accomplishment of God’s will”, wrote 70 years ago sister Sára Salkaházi, of the Society of Social Nuns. She will be beatified on Sunday September 17th 2006 in Budapest, in the square just in front of the Cathedral of Saint Stephen. The ceremony will be celebrated, on behalf of Benedict XVI, by cardinal Péter Erdo, Primate of Hungary and archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest. At the end of Mass, József Schweitzer, ex head rabbi of Hungary, will sing the praise of the new beatified nun, who underwent martyrdom to save the life of persecuted Jews. Sára Salkaházi (her real name was Sarolta Klotild Schalkház) was born in the territory of today’s Slovakia, in Kassa (now Kosice), on May 11th 1899. In 1929, she joined the Society of Social Nuns. “Against the fascist ideology, she fought with her writing skills reports the agency Magyar Kurír -. During the Second World War, the Society of Social Nuns took in victims of persecution, saving about one thousand people, about one hundred of whom owe their life to sister Sára. On December 27th 1944, sister Sára was taken away by the fascists along with some persecuted people and shot in an iced Danube, at the foot of the Bridge of Freedom, in Budapest”.
