Saints & Church Fathers
St. Maria of Paris
20th-century nun and confessor who united liturgical life with radical mercy to the poor and displaced in Paris. During World War II, she helped shelter Jews and resistance members and later died in Ravensbruck concentration camp. Canonized as a martyr of love and diakonia. Feast: July 20.
Sources
- Sergei Hackel, Pearl of Great Price: The Life of Mother Maria Skobtsova
- Yad Vashem testimony and records on Mother Maria
- Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, Act of Canonisation (16 January 2004)