Like St Maria Goretti, Slovakia's newest martyr is a model for young people, Cardinal Angelo Becciu has said.
With her beatification, Blessed Anna Kolesárová, who was shot at the age of 16 in front of her family for resisting rape by a drunken Soviet soldier, is upheld as an example for all Catholics, especially the young, so that they may "rediscover the beauty of authentic love as well as the virtue of purity", the prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes said.
The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, released excerpts of the cardinal's homily at the beatification Mass in Košice, Slovakia, on September 1.
