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MARTYR DEATH
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PREVIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES
All houses of the sisters in Budapest were full of persecuted people, especially Jews, who had to hide because the Nazis were pursuing them. In orter to save them the sisters provided them with fake documents. On December 9, Hungarian soldiers occupied the large hall of the home on Bokréta Street, where the Social Sisters had their home. Despite several warnings, the two maids went to them, then led the soldiers into their room. Novice Letícia saw Sister Sára talking to them with the greatest love, as only caring mothers know, and trying to explain to them what spiritual and moral damage it could cause in them.
26.12.1944 | THE ALLEGATION OF SISTER SARA
The day before her death, Sara told one of the maids during an interview that she would move her to another home, under the same conditions as here. The girl said nothing, but she went to one of the previous members of the home management, who had been replaced a month before. She complained to her that Sister Sara wanted to take her away. She advised her to go to the Nazis and tell them that Sister Sara is hiding Jews, so she would have to leave. The maid did so.
27.12.1944 | THE DAY OF MARTYRDOM
In the morning, the sisters gathered in Sara's room, where they used to meditate. On this day, Sara also provided a topic for contemplation in connection with the 3 feasts that were currently celebrated in the Church (December 26 - St. Stephen, December 27 - St. John, December 28 - St. Innocents). She gave them this text from the book The Year of Salvation: One of them is a martyr by will and in fact (Stephen), one who was prepared by the will to suffer martyrdom but was not really a martyr (John), and finally those who couldn't want yet, but in fact, they suffered a martyr's death (Innocents). In Sister Sara's voice felt fire, desire, love for the victim...
Sister Sara and sister Hedviga went to arrange something in another house, but in the meantime the Nazis occupied their house on Bokréta Street. As they returned and turned the corner, Sister Hedviga immediately saw the Nazi guard standing in front of the house. She asked to the Sara, "Do you want to escape? So you can keep arranging things. I'll go to the house." Sara, responsible for the house, replied, "No, I'm going too."
At first they wanted to enter the chapel, but another guard guided them to the cellar. A young Nazi, almost a child, was waiting for them below, but with devilish malice and an armed submachine gun, and asked them to present their documents. Many frightened faces were visible in the dim light of the candles - several of the inhabitants of the house were set aside, saying that they were Jews. As well as the catechist Vilma Bernovits, who was a Christian. Sister Sara came to the Nazis and said, "I'm the head of the home. What's the matter, please?" She answered the investigator's questions calmly.
When the lengthy legitimacy finally ended, the Nazis announced that they would take Sister Sara and Vilma, to write a record with them, and then release them home, while the Jews, number four, would be taken to the ghetto.
Late evening, on that late December day, they were taken to the banks of the Danube and were denuded. According to an eyewitness, Sr. Sara turned to her executors with an inexplicable peace, knelt down and with her eyes lifted up to heaven she made a big sign of the cross. The shooting started and the bodies fell into the icy Danube. Bodies of martyrs, some of whom, like the Innocents, did not desire but suffered death. And there was the martyr, who as St. Stephen, longed for and suffered it, so that, following the example of her Spouse she "may give her life for many."
