Due to the circumstance of the death of Bl. Sara, no physical remains have been preserved and therefore first-degree relics are not available. Sister Sara died a martyr during World War II in Budapest. She was shot on the banks of the Danube with her colleague Vilma Bernovits and a group of Jewish women she was hiding. Their bodies were thrown into the icy Danube. At that time, Budapest was besieged by Russian troops with constant bombing. The city itself was under the control of the Germans and their allies – the Hungarian Nazis. During this period, countless bodies were thrown into the Danube, which abducted the corpses of innocent civilians, convicted members of the anti-German union and fallen soldiers. In her hometown of Košice, her name is engraved on the tombstone of her parents. However, her remains are waiting to be resurrected in an unknown place.

​After the war, the communist regime entered and church life had to be withdrawn underground. What belonged to the church was confiscated or destroyed. However, what has almost miraculously preserved is her cilicium. It’s a great treasure for our community, so we don’t give it away bit by bit as a relic to the public.

We are able to send a holy picture with her photo, which also contains a small piece of canvas that touched her cilicium, so it is a relic of the 3rd degree.

Approved prayers for the intercession of Bl. Sara Salkahazi can be found in the “Prayers” section of this site.

If you are looking for a prayer in a foreign language, just switch the language of the page in the upper right corner. Hungarian, Slovak, English, Polish  and Spanish languages are currently available.

​You can write a testimony to the e-mail address: sss.gen@hcbc.hu.

If you prefer correspondence, you can write to this address:

Sisters of Social Service – Generalate
1029 Budapest
Bátori László u 10.
Hungary

We will pass the testimony on to the postulator. 

Optional memory is on her birthday on May 11th.

​Information about available literature can be found in the “Materials – Publications” section of this site.

If you are interested in these publications, please contact the District Moderator, from whom you can purchase more of them.

Literature about Bl. Sara is available only in Hungarian and Slovak language. In the section “They told about her…” you will find several  texts translated into other languages, in which you can get more information about bl. Sara. You can select a language in the upper right corner.