The 2021 beatification of 10 Polish nuns slain by Soviet soldiers was “prophetic,” Archbishop Józef Kupny of Wroclaw (Poland) wrote in a pastoral letter.

“In their faces, we see the faces of women and children now falling victim to similar aggression by Russian soldiers,” he said. “At one time, it seemed we could only talk about violence, aggression and the killing of innocent people in the past tense, hoping the events these sisters witnessed would never return.”

“No one predicted our brothers and sisters in Ukraine would experience the same fate.”