«Let's not say that today it is more difficult;
it's different. Let's learn rather
by the saints who have gone before us
and they faced the difficulties
characteristic of their era".
In Italy this day was established to preserve and renew «the memory of the tragedy of the Italians and of all the victims of the sinkholes, of the exodus of the Istrians, Fiumans and Italian Dalmatians from their lands during the Second World War and in the immediate after World War II (1943-1945), and the more complex story of the eastern border»*.
The death “in odium fidei” of Blessed Francis Boniface takes place in this historical context.
*(Law 30 March 2004 n. 92)
«Let's not say that today it is more difficult;
it's different. Let's learn rather
by the saints who have gone before us
and they faced the difficulties
characteristic of their era".