Alojzy Liguda
Polish priest (1898-1942)
Feast: 12 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the Dachau prison camp near Munich in Bavaria in Germany, Blessed Alojzy Liguda, priest of the Society of the Divine Word and martyr, who, during the wartime invasion of Poland, murdered by the prison guards, bore witness to Christ the Lord unto death.
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 8 December as a Divine Word priest murdered by the guards at Dachau.
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, 8 December (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q4261242 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Alojzy Liguda (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.