Aleksy Sobaszek
Polish Roman Catholic priest and martyr (1895–1942)
Feast: 1 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the prison camp of Dachau near Munich in Bavaria in Germany, Blessed Aleksy Sobaszek, priest and martyr, who, Polish by birth, inhumanly deported by the invaders in wartime, died for Christ under torture defending his faith.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 1 August as a Polish priest who died under torture at Dachau defending his faith.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Roman Martyrology, 1 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q4425760 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Aleksy Sobaszek (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.