Maria Restituta Kafka was an Austrian nurse of Czech descent and religious sister of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity. Executed by the government in Nazi-run Austria, she is honoured as a virgin and martyr in the Catholic Church. Pope John Paul II beatified her in 1998.

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1 May 1894

30 March 1943 (aged 48)

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