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
- 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 [6 images, 141 kb]
- Print References
- The Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
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