On July 13, 1944, Mother Mary Stefania of the Holy Cross and  young Sister Mary Coletta arrived in the city of Zagreb, Croatia, from the Poor Clare monastery of Split. Since the city of Split was then under aerial attacks and was being bombed, the two nuns were seeking a safer location. Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac welcomed them into his diocese and invited them to begin a foundation in Zagreb. A few years later two other nuns arrived and they were able to begin the foundation in 1948. 
Archbishop Stepinac was arrested by the Communists when they took over Croatia, which was then forced into the fused country of Yugoslavia. He died under house arrest and is considered a martyr. He was beatified on October 3, 1998.  He wrote:
“In our daily prayers, and above all at holy Mass and in reading our breviary, we beg God that He will shorten these days and that the Sun of Justice will shine upon us and upon our faithful. Let the Word of God give us courage in all things.”