The Blessed Martyrs of Drina (Croatian: Drinske mučenice) are the professed Sisters of the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Charity, who died during World War II.

The five nuns were later declared martyrs and beatified by Pope Benedict XVI (delegated to Cardinal Angelo Amato) on 24 September 2011.

"[2] NDH authorities, led by the Ustasha Militia,[3] subsequently implemented genocidal policies against the Serb, Jewish and Romani populations living within the borders of the new state.

[7] Jezdimir Dangić, an officer who served in the gendarmerie of the first Serbian puppet government sought permission to travel to Bosnia and escort his family and relatives to safety after news reached him of the Ustaše massacres of Serbs.

[9] He collected a group of Bosnian Serbs and crossed the Drina River into the NDH, arriving in eastern Bosnia on 16 August.

Following the arrival of Dangić, Chetnik bands spread through the town and began killing, raping, pillaging and torching homes.

[15] They looted and burnt down the local Roman Catholic convent, Marijin dom ("Mary's Home"), and captured its five nuns (two Slovene, one Croat, one Hungarian, and one Austrian).

That evening, the nuns and some other prisoners were forced to march across the Romanija mountain range in freezing temperatures and waist-deep snow.

[20] The five nuns were declared martyrs, On 14 January 2011, Pope Benedict XVI announced the promulgation of decrees of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

[21] A non-fiction book about the nuns was written by Croatian author Anto Baković, titled Drinske mučenice (Drina Martyrs; Sarajevo, 1990).

Sister Slavica Buljan, a Bosnian-Croatian nun, writer and poet, wrote Zavjet krvlju potpisan (Vow Signed With Blood; Zagreb, 2010).