Henryk Krzysztofik
Polish Capuchin friar, priest, and martyr (1908–1942)
Feast: 4 August (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, Blessed Henryk Krzysztofik, priest and martyr, who, deported in wartime from Poland to a foreign prison for having professed himself a Christian, completed his martyrdom under torture.
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 4 August as a Polish priest martyred 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, 4 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q2239828 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.