Edward Grzymała
Polish priest, martyr, blessed of the Catholic Church (1906–1942)
Feast: 12 June (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, Blesseds Franciszek Drzewiecki, of the Congregation of the Little Work of Divine Providence, and Edward Grzymała, priests and martyrs, who, Poles by origin, during the devastation of their homeland in wartime were placed by their persecutors in a foreign prison and reached Christ, killed in a gas chamber.
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 10 August as a Polish priest and martyr killed in a gas chamber 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.
Connected on this site
- Franciszek Drzewiecki Saint“In the prison camp of Dachau near Munich in Bavaria in Germany, Blesseds Franciszek Drzewiecki, of the Congregation of the Little Work of Divine Providence, and Edward Grzymała, priests and martyrs, who, Poles by origin, during the devastation of their homeland in wartime were placed by their persecutors in a…” — this site's research
- Roman Martyrology, 10 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q1923977 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Edward Grzymała (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.