Cecília Schelingová, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Cecília Schelingová

Slovak martyr

Date of Birth: 24-Dec-1916

Place of Birth: Krivá, Slovak Socialist Republic, Slovakia

Date of Death: 31-Jul-1955

Profession: nurse

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Cecília Schelingová (24 December 1916 – 31 July 1955), also known as Zdenka, was a Slovak Roman Catholic professed religious of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Holy Cross and a victim of communist persecution in the former Czechoslovakia.
Schelingová worked for the most part in the hospital at Bratislava before her arrest and aided priests fleeing persecution from the totalitarian communist regime in her home nation.The beatification was celebrated on 14 September 2003 on the occasion of Pope John Paul II visiting Slovakia and had been made a Servant of God when the process opened on 22 February 2000.