Also before saying the Angelus prayer, the Pope, with the Spanish ones, yesterday morning recalled the martyrs who had been proclaimed Blessed in the previous days, "The month of October, which is specially devoted to missionary work he said , thus ends with the bright testimony of the Spanish martyrs who add up to the martyrs Albertina Berkenbrock, Emmanuel Gómez Gonzáles and Adilio Daronch, and Franz Jägerstätter, who were proclaimed blessed in the last few days in Brazil and Austria. Their example shows that Baptism binds Christians to taking part bravely in the spreading of the Kingdom of God, contributing to it, if needed, with the sacrifice of their life. Of course, not everyone is called to bloody martyrdom. However there is a bloodless "martyrdom" which is no less important, like that of Celina Chludziñska Borzcka, a married woman, a mother, a widow and a religious woman who was beatified in Rome yesterday: it is the silent, heroic testimony of many Christians who live the Gospel without compromises, doing their duty and generously devoting themselves to serving the poor".
