Józef Jankowski
Polish priest (1910–1941)
Feast: 12 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Near Kraków in Poland, in the Auschwitz extermination camp, Blesseds Anicet Kopliński, of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, and Józef Jankowski, of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, priests and martyrs, who, during the military occupation of their homeland by followers of an impious doctrine hostile to humanity and to the faith, bore witness to faith in Christ until death, the one killed in a gas chamber, the other by the camp guards.
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 16 October as a Pallottine priest and martyr killed at Auschwitz.
Connected on this site
- Anicet Kopliński Blessed“Near Kraków in Poland, in the Auschwitz extermination camp, Blesseds Anicet Kopliński, of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, and Józef Jankowski, of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, priests and martyrs, who, during the military occupation of their homeland by followers of an impious doctrine hostile to…” — this site's research
- Roman Martyrology, 16 October (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q571950 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.