Emil Szramek
Polish priest, blessed of the Catholic Church (1887–1942)
Feast: 9 July (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, Germany, Blessed Emil Szramek, priest and martyr: of Polish origin, during the war he was inhumanly deported to that camp and died under torture for having defended the faith of Christ before his persecutors.
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 13 January as a Polish priest and martyr who died under torture 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, 13 January (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q2319675 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Emil Szramek (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.