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Ulma family including unborn child all beatified for their actions to help Jews during second world warThe Vatican has beatified a Polish family of nine - a married couple and their small children - who were executed by the Nazis during the second world war for sheltering Jews.During a ceremonious mass in the village of Markowa, in south-east Poland, the papal envoy Cardinal Marcello Semeraro read out the Latin formula of the beatification of the Ulma family signed last month by Pope Francis. Continue reading...