Blessed Mary Magdalene Bódi: Hungary’s New Virgin-Martyr of World War II

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A painting of Blessed Mary Magdalene Bódi, based on her best-known photograph, is displayed in a Catholic Church in Litér, Hungary

Beatified Sept. 6 in Veszprém, Hungary, the young factory worker gave her life resisting a Soviet soldier’s assault in 1945.

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