Franciszek Drzewiecki
Polish Catholic priest
Feast: 12 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
The 108 Martyrs of World War II, known also as the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs (Polish: 108 błogosławionych męczenników), were Catholics from Poland killed during World War II by German Nazis. Their liturgical feast day is 12 June. The 108 were beatified on 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II in Warsaw. The group comprises 3 bishops, 79 priests, 7 male religious, 8 female religious, and 11 lay people. There are two parishes named for the martyrs, in Powiercie in Koło County, and in Malbork.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Edward Grzymała Blessed“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
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - 108 martiri polacchi della II Guerra Mondiale — Named in the list of the 108 Polish martyrs beatified 13 June 1999; Orionine priest gassed at Hartheim 10 September 1942. He is a blessed, not a saint.
- Wikidata Q2088800 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
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