CV NEWS FEED // The Archdiocese of New York will host a display for one month featuring relics of the Ulmas, the first-ever family beatified together, offering locals three opportunities to venerate the relics of the contemporary martyrs.
According to the Archdiocese’s website, the exhibit will offer three opportunities to venerate the relics of Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children, a Polish family martyred during World War II for sheltering Jews in their home.
The Ulmas were devout Catholics and loved the parable of the Good Samaritan, as was discovered from notes taken in their family Bible. True to the parable’s teaching, the family was able to hide eight Jews from the Nazis for two years before they were betrayed.
At the time of her murder, Wiktoria was eight months pregnant with her seventh child, a baby boy. She went into early labor and died with the baby partially born. The baby died as well, but was declared by Pope Francis to have received a baptism of blood.
CatholicVote reported that he was beatified alongside his parents and siblings in September, making the Ulmas the first family to be beatified together.
The exhibit will additionally feature a display on the lives of the Ulmas, including photos, documents, and quotes from Pope St. John Paul II on marriage, family, and inter-religious relations.
The relics will be available for veneration in New York from April 27-28 during New York Catholic Youth Day at St. Joseph’s Seminary, again on May 1 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral during the May Young Adult Mass, and once more at the Cathedral from May 17-31.
CatholicVote reported in February that the Ulmas’ relics were set to embark on a world tour of Polish parishes. The relics have also been featured at the St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., and the 2024 Life Fest Rally in January.
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