Blessed Karolina Kózkówna
![[Blessed Karolina Kózkówna]](saintk18.jpg "18kb jpg image of Blessed Karolina's beatification portrait; please do not write to ask about the image")
- Also known as
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Maria Goretti of Poland
Caroline Kozka
- Memorial
- 18 November
- Profile
- Fourth of eleven children born to the farm family of Jan and Maria Borzechka Kózka.
Catechist.
A teenaged virgin, she refused the advances of a Russian soldier.
He kidnapped her, dragged her into the forest, and murdered her during an attempted rape.
Martyr of purity.
- Born
- 2 August 1898 at Wal-Ruda, Poland
- Died
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murdered during a rape attempt by a Russian soldier on 18 November 1914 in the forests around Wal-Ruda, Poland
her body was found on 4 December 1914
buried at Zabawa, Poland
- Beatified
- 10 June 1987 at Tarnów, Poland by Pope John Paul II
- Canonized
- pending
- Images
- Gallery of images of Blessed Karolina
- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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