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Karolina Kózka (2 August 1898 – 18 November 1914) was a Polish teenager who has been beatified as a virgin-martyr by the Roman Catholic Church. She died while resisting an attempted rape by a Russian soldier.She was almost immediately venerated by people in her hometown following her death. Efforts to have her declared a saint began in 1965. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987. She is sometimes called the Polish Maria Goretti.
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