Modern Martyrs and Confessors Prayer Card Bundle: 16 Handmade Cards

Priests, bishops and laypeople who held to the faith under communism and persecution in the twentieth century. These cards honor their witness.

These witnesses held to the faith under communism, Nazism and the genocides of the twentieth century.

This bundle includes 16 different handmade prayer cards, one of each saint listed below.

The 16 cards in this bundle

• Saint Elizabeth the New Martyr: Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, who gave up royal privilege, founded a convent of mercy for the poor and sick, and was martyred in the Bolshevik persecution.
• Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko: A Polish priest tied to the Solidarity workers whose Masses for the Homeland drew thousands, and who answered communist oppression without hatred. He was martyred for his witness.
• Servants of God Takashi & Midori Nagai: The Catholic husband and wife of Nagasaki whose faith was forged in the atomic bombing of the city.
• Blessed Alfons Tracki: A Franciscan priest in northern Albania who was killed on the road by armed militants while bringing the sacraments to a dying woman.
• Blessed Mieczysław Bohatkiewicz: A Polish priest who kept up his pastoral work through Nazi prisons and was martyred, one of the 108 Polish Martyrs of World War II.
• Blessed Marian Skrzypczak: A Polish layman and father who resisted Nazi ideology in occupied Poland and is counted among the 108 Polish Martyrs of World War II.
• Venerable Emil Kapaun: A Kansas priest, Army chaplain and Medal of Honor recipient who cared for fellow soldiers on the battlefield and in a Korean War prison camp.
• Blessed Franz Jägerstätter & Franziska Jägerstätter: An Austrian farming couple from St. Radegund whose quiet life of daily prayer and Mass led Franz to refuse to serve the Nazi regime, with Franziska at his side.
• Saint Ignatius Maloyan: An Armenian Catholic archbishop killed in the Armenian Genocide for refusing to deny Christ. His last words: "I die happy, because I die for my faith." Feast: June 11.
• The Massabki Brothers: Three Maronite lay brothers, Francis, Abdel Mohti and Raphael, killed in 1860 for their faith. Feast: July 10.
• Saint Mark Ji Tianxiang: A Chinese Catholic physician born in 1834 who fell into opium addiction after a stomach illness, lived a long struggle with it, and was martyred.
• Blessed Theodore Romzha: A Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic bishop of Mukachevo, consecrated at thirty-three, who gave his life rather than let Soviet authorities force his Church to break communion with Rome.
• Blessed Nykyta Budka: A Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop worn down by Soviet forced labor and imprisonment, honored as a shepherd who chose suffering over silence.
• Nicholas Charnetsky: A Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop who was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned under Soviet rule rather than abandon his faith.
• Blessed Eugene Bossilkov: A Bulgarian Catholic bishop of Nicopolis, born in 1900 and executed in 1952 under the communist regime.
• Servant of God Fabijan Abrantovich: A Belarusian Greek Catholic priest and educator who chose pastoral fidelity over personal safety and died after Soviet imprisonment. Commemorated September 20.

Each card features sacred artwork on the front and a short biography with a prayer on the back. Every card is handmade and laminated in Austin, Texas, and a prayer is said for the person who will receive it.