Antoni Julian Nowowiejski
Polish Roman Catholic archbishop and blessed (1858-1941)
Feast: 28 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the city of Działdowo in Poland, Blessed Antoni Julian Nowowiejski, bishop of Płock, who, in the same period, imprisoned by enemies in a prison camp, exhausted by hunger and cruel tortures, passed to the Lord.
The miracles
The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 28 May as a bishop of Płock who died of hunger and torture in a prison camp at Działdowo.
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.
Connected on this site
- Leon Wetmański Blessed“Among them were Archbishop Antoni Julian Nowowiejski of Płock, tortured to death at Działdowo, and Bishop Władysław Goral of Lublin, tortured with particular hatred because he was a Catholic bishop.” — this site's research
- Roman Martyrology, 28 May (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q538813 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Antoni Julian Nowowiejski (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.