CV NEWS FEED // Participants at the 2024 Life Fest rally will have the opportunity to venerate the first-class relics of a recently beatified Polish family, according to a recent media release.
The organizers of the 2024 Life Fest rally, an event directly before the March for Life, announced on December 21 that they chose to honor the recently beatified Ulma family at the rally because their lives “exemplify what it means to value the dignity of every human person.”
CatholicVote reported in September that the Ulma family was martyred for hiding Jews in their home during World War II. Their beatification on September 10 held special significance, as it marked the first time that the Vatican beatified an entire family together, including a baby born as the family was being killed.
According to The Florida Catholic, Life Fest’s organizers believe that the actions of the Ulma family bear “special significance to the pro-life movement.”
The Ulmas’ relics will also be included in a special exhibition at the St. John Paul II National Shrine until at least March 24.
The 2024 Life Fest rally will also include speakers, testimonies, music by Sarah Kroger and Damascus Worship, a Eucharistic healing procession, and Mass.
Sister Mary Grace, a Sister of Life, said that a Life Fest rally she attended as a teen radically changed the way she viewed the pro-life movement.
“None of us are here by mistake; every single person is wanted and necessary,” she said in a media release, according to The Florida Catholic. “ I left the rally with a fresh conviction that every single human person is precious, and your value is worth cherishing again every year.”
