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Ignacy Dobiasz

Salesian priest, died at Auschwitz

BlessedFull write-up

Born

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unknown

Died

1941

Beatified

6 June 2026

by Leo XIV

Canonised

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not yet

Who they were

Ignacy Dobiasz, born at Ciechowice on 14 January 1880, trained in the Salesian houses of study in Italy and was ordained priest in 1908; back in Poland he worked in pastoral and educational posts in several places and from 1931 was sent as a parish assistant to Kraków. He was arrested on 23 May 1941 and deported to Auschwitz, where he died on 27 June of that year from exhaustion and the beatings he had suffered. He was beatified on 6 June 2026 by Pope Leo XIV.

The miracles

The source does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.

Why that counted as sanctity

A Salesian priest of Kraków, he was deported to Auschwitz and died there of exhaustion and beatings.

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.

A miracle approved by the Holy See is needed for the next step. If you know the postulation’s own page, tell us and it will be added here.

Sources

Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.