Servant of God Trofima Miloslavić

Trofima Mada Miloslavić (Makoše, Župa dubrovačka, August 17, 1888 – Rome, November 26, 1950) was a Croatian Catholic nun, a Sister of Charity, and a victim of the Yugoslav communist regime. A beatification process has been initiated for Sister Trofima, along with six other fellow sisters who were victims of martyrdom. She was born in the village of Makoše in Župa dubrovačka on August 17, 1888. She entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity on January 14, 1912. She took her temporary religious vows on August 15, 1914, and her perpetual vows on May 3, 1921, in Zagreb. She worked as a nurse in Mostar and Rijeka. Communists took her from Rijeka to the Rajhenburg Castle near Krško in Slovenia, where she was held captive until September 12, 1950, spending five years imprisoned in a penal correctional facility for women. She died in Rome on November 26, 1950, due to the severe conditions of her imprisonment. In Gospić, on the 72nd anniversary of the martyrdom of Sister Žarka Ivasić, the Bishop of Gospić-Senj, Zdenko Križić, formally opened the beatification process for the Servants of God: Sister Žarka Ivasić and six fellow martyr sisters (Sister M. Kornelija Horvat, Sister Lipharda Horvat, Sister Geralda Jakob, Sister Konstantina Mesar, Sister Trofima Miloslavić, and Sister Blanda Stipetić) of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul – Zagreb, who suffered under the communist regime out of hatred for the faith.