Student killed in WWII beatified
Lojze Grozde, who died at the age of 20, a high school student, was captured in 1943, when Slovenia was occupied by Italy and Germany. Communist-run antifascist rebels – known as partisans – reportedly found a Latin prayer book in his possession and suspected him of collaborating with Italian fascists. His mutilated body was found a month later in a forest.
Tarcisio Bertone, the secretary of state of the Holy See, declared Grozde a martyr of faith before thousands of faithful at the Celje square.
