Krizina Bojanc

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Sister M. Krizina Bojanc, FDC (14 May 1885 – 15 December 1941), baptized Jožefa, was a Slovenian Roman Catholic nun, farmer, and martyr.[1]

Life and ministry

She was a sister of the Institute of the Daughters of Divine Charity, and is one of the five Blessed Martyrs of Drina.[2] The prayer day for the five sisters is 15th of every month.[3]

Pope Benedict XVI beatified Bojanc and her four fellow Sisters of the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Charity and declared them blessed on 14 January 2011.[4] The ceremony was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on 24 September 2011, and Italian Cardinal Angelo Amato attended and celebrated the mass on behalf of Pope Benedict.[5]

Bojanc had an agricultural vocation, farming to grow food and also tending cattle that supplied the sisters' charity schools and homes.[6]

References

  1. 1.Baković, Anto (1990). Drinske Mučenice: Vlastita Svjedočanstva Očevidaca, Dokumenti. Sarajevo.
  2. 2.Catholic Press Agency of the Bishops' Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina (14 May 2011). "Birthday of the Drina Martyr Sister Krizina (Rođendan Drinske mučenice sestre Krizine)". KTA BK BiH.
  3. 3."Drina Martyrs". Daughters of Divine Charity. Archived from the original on 12 November 2025.
  4. 4."Causes of Saints". The Catholic Historical Review. 97 (2): 412. 2011.
  5. 5.K. T. "Martyrs of Drina". Nedjelja: Katolički Tjednik (Catholic newspaper published in Sarajevo).
  6. 6.Krajačić FDC, Sister M. Ozana (2011). Bilyck, Marianne (ed.). Drinske mučenice – život i mučeništvo [The Drina Martyrs: Their Lives and Martyrdom] (PDF). Translated by Penzer, Snježana. Zagreb, Croatia: The Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Charity, Province of Divine Providence.