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A Croatian Saint Was Tortured and Killed on This Day: He Refused to Renounce His Faith and Ended up in the Hands of His Torturers

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On this day, September 7, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Mark of Crosses and his fellow priests who were killed with him on that day in 1619 in the city of Košice, in what is now Slovakia. In addition to St. Mark of Crosses, two other priests were killed – St. Stephen Pongrácz and St. Melkior Grodziecki. The Košice area at that time belonged to northern Hungary and was one of the places of conflict between Protestants and Cathol…
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On this day, September 7, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Mark of Crosses and his fellow priests who were killed with him on that day in 1619 in the city of Košice, in what is now Slovakia. In addition to St. Mark of Crosses, two other priests were killed – St. Stephen Pongrácz and St. Melkior Grodziecki. The Košice area at that time belonged to northern Hungary and was one of the places of conflict between Protestants and Cathol…

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bjelovar.live broke the news on Monday, September 7, 2026.
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