A Hungarian nun who took active part in saving the lives of dozens of Jews during World War II will be beatified by the Catholic Church, officials said Monday.
Sara Salkahazi was killed by the Arrow Cross - the Hungarian allies of the Nazis - on Dec. 27, 1944 for hiding Jews in a Budapest building used by her religious order, the Sisters of Social Service.
Salkahazi was taken along with several other occupants of the home and shot, their bodies falling into the Danube River and never recovered, AP reports.
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Church officials highlighted Salkahazi's modest middle-class roots, saying she will be first Hungarian to be beatified who is not royalty or a member of the country's aristocracy.
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