
#2 Humility
Humility is one the very highest of all virtues. Many people consider it to be the highest of all virtues. Regardless, Diana embodied it in spades. Unlike Oskar Schindler who hid Jews only if they paid him. Diana did not receive any financial compensation for her acts of kindness and bravery. In fact, she used her own money for the rescue mission. Additionally, Diana received no recognition for her heroism during the war nor in the postwar period. Diana was not a Yugoslav Partisan as such her heroism was ignored by the postwar socialist Yugoslav government. Diana was humble. She did not perform this unprecedented act of bravery for recognition, accolades, awards or financial reimbursement. She did it because it was the right thing to do--because she listened to her own heart and not the conformity and fears of this troubled world. Diana was humble both during the war and after the war. She only used her name to attract support for her mission--to make it viable--not to give herself attention (for vainglory.) Humility is one of the rarest of all virtues because most people never embody it to the degree of Diana let alone maintain it like Diana did.

#1 Love
We believe that love is the highest of all virtues of all and it is one that Diana irrefutely embodied. Love encompasses so many incredible virtues; integrity, compassion, kindness and much more. If we don't have integrity in what we do then we are not guided by love. If we are not compassionate, then likewise we are not guided by love. How many people today can truly and honestly say that they are guided by love? Or rather how many people truly are guided by love? Love means you are willing to forgive. Love means you are willing to put the ego down for others. Love means you are willing to put your life on the line for others and much much more. Diana was guided by love. Love transcends the human condition more than any other virtue. It is the one virtue that most connects us with God. Diana demonstrated integrity, compassion, kindness and above all love. She was guided by love for those poor children placed in the worst concentration camps of WWII. These children were forcibly separated from their parents who were then sadistically murdered. These children were to receive the same fate. All the rescued children had already experienced extreme abuse and neglect which is why Diana was unable to save all the children she rescued because they died before they could receive health care. Diana was willing to pay the highest price to save those children which demonstrates her undying love for them--for someone other than herself or her immediate family etc. She loved complete strangers as though they were herself. Love is the highest of all virtues because it is the ultimate driving force of all exemplary actions. Love is the way--it is the high road--the path we should all be walking (a heart-centred life.) Love and only love can lead us back to God.
Of course Diana was not able to save all the children of the Independent State of Croatia circa WWII. To save those 10,000 children was already an immense logistical nightmare for Diana to manage. Sadly, 75,000 children were brutally murdered by the Croatian Ustashe during WWII. The vast majority were Orthodox Serbian. The Croatian Ustashe were the only people in history to operate concentration (death) camps for children. We remember.

Diana's tomb in her hometown of Obexer, Austria.




