Sister Maria Aquinata Nagyová Dies After Surviving War and Communist Regime

Sister Maria Aquinata Nagyová, a Catholic nun who survived World War II and the communist era in Czechoslovakia, has died. The religious sister lived through the war years and endured Action R, the communist regime's systematic persecution of religious orders and clergy that began in 1950. She dedicated decades of her life to working in various institutions throughout her religious career. Nagyová's life spanned some of the most challenging periods in Slovak and Czechoslovak history, witnessing both wartime upheaval and the suppression of religious life under communist rule.