Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, November 18, 1914. Karolina Kózka.

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, November 18, 1914. Karolina Kózka and...: 

Wednesday, November 18, 1914. Karolina Kózka and a march on Mexico City.

Deeply Catholic Karolina Kózka, a 16-year-old Polish girl died while resisting an attempted rape by a Russian soldier near her village of Wał-Ruda, Poland.   The soldiers stabbed her to death. Pope John Paul II beatified her as a "martyr of Christ" in 1987.

Lex Anteinternet: St. Agnes of Rome

Lex Anteinternet: St. Agnes of Rome:  

St. Agnes of Rome

 A saint, in many ways, for our times.  Her feast day was yesterday.

Martyred on January 21, 304.