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The beatification process for the eleven Religious Sisters was officially opened on 18 September 1991, and, on 28 June 1999, it was announced by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints of the Holy See that Pope John Paul II had confirmed that they were martyrs, having died for others in the name of the Catholic faith.
[citation needed] In favour of this version of localization is the fact that in the earliest annals of Novgorod called "Novgorodou", and [ou] in the end later added the letter "k" turned [ouk], so the chronicle "Novgorodou" transformed into "Novgorodouk" and was later simplified to "Novogrudok".
On February 12, 1799, the poet Adam Mickiewicz was baptised here. [4] In 1812 during the French invasion of Russia Napoleon’s troops used the church as a food storage. After the war the services in the church were resumed, but in 1864 it was closed again in the aftermath of the January Uprising. [3] The building decayed until 1906.
[4] [5] This strained the Bielskis' relations with their neighbours, many of whom were subjected to Soviet repression. During Operation Barbarossa , the German invasion of the Soviet Union beginning 22 June 1941, a Jewish ghetto was established within Novogrudok, as the Germans took over the area and implemented their genocidal policies (see ...
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Nowogródek Voivodeship consisted of 8 cities, 8 powiats subdivided further into futory and kolonie, and 89 villages. The Polish census of 1921 data reveals that the voivodeship was inhabited by 800,761 people, and the population density was 35.3 persons per km 2.
Martyrs of Nowogródek: 11 Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth executed by the Gestapo in 1943 in occupied Poland. Martyrs of Otranto: 813 residents of the city of Otranto, Italy put to death in 1480 for refusing to convert to Islam. Saints of the Cristero War: 25 Catholic saints and martyrs who died in the Mexican Cristero War.
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