Kazimierz Sykulski
Polish Catholic priest
Feast: 1 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the Auschwitz extermination camp near Kraków in Poland, Blessed Kazimierz Sykulski, priest and martyr, who was shot during the war in front of the persecutors of the Church of God for having firmly kept his faith.
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 1 December as a priest shot at Auschwitz for firmly keeping his faith.
The cause
Kazimierz Sykulski has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Diocese of Radom: Blessed Kazimierz Sykulski.
- Roman Martyrology, 1 December (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q2193118 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.