Lying on her hospital death bed, the 100-year-old widow left with a broken neck in a brutal street robbery as she walked to church, prayed for the soul of her attacker.
This final act of forgiveness demonstrated by Zofija Kaczan was, say friends and the priest who prayed with her at Royal Derby Hospital, a typical act of kindness from a woman who endured so much suffering in her own life – from seeing her family torn apart during the Nazi occupation of Poland to losing her beloved husband a decade ago - and yet held on to her faith until the very end.
“She prayed for forgiveness for her killer,” says Anya Skrytek, 80, a close friend who found her in the street following the mugging near to her... Telegraph.
In forgiving, she was righteous before The Lord our God. She emulated The Saviour on the cross.
Society should now show righteousness in the punishment of her murderer. BUT - our world has abandoned God's will.
