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A Catholic nun from Bazil, holds a flag in Sarajevo, on September 24, 2011, during a ceremony of beatfication of five catholic nuns brutaly murdered during World War II. After decades of investigation and proof gathering, sisters of the order of „Daughters of the Love of God“: Marija Jula Ivanisevic of Croatia, Marija Berchmana Leidenix of Austria, Marija Krizina Bojanc of Slovenia, Marija Antonija Fabjan of Slovenia and Marija Bernadeta Banja of Croatia wer bonified by a decree of Pope Benedict XVI. In 1942, the five nuns were taken away from their monastery in Pale near Sarajevo, the monastery was burned and they were imprisoned and tortured by Bosnian Serb paramilitary forces until they were killed in prison in Eastern Bosnian town of Gorazde, later that year. AFP PHOTO ELVIS BARUKCIC (Photo credit should read ELVIS BARUKCIC/AFP/Getty Images)