Michal Tomaszek
Feast: 9 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
The Three Martyrs of Chimbote were a group of two Polish Franciscan priests and one Italian missionary priest murdered in Peru in 1991 by the Shining Path communist guerillas. Michał Tomaszek and Zbigniew Adam Strzałkowski, and Alessandro Dordi were murdered on 9 and 25 August 1991 respectively.
Summary of the Wikipedia article Three Martyrs of Chimbote, which covers Michal Tomaszek with others (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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The cause
Michal Tomaszek 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 Bielsko-Zywiec: Blessed Michal Tomaszek.
- Santi, beati e testimoni - BeatiMichal Tomaszek e Zbigniew Strzalkowski — Santiebeati.it, the Italian Catholic saints dictionary, carries a full entry: BeatiMichal Tomaszek e Zbigniew Strzalkowski - Sacerdoti dei Frati Minori Conventuali, martiri | Padre Michał: Łękawica, 23 settembre 1960 – P
- Wikidata Q11779297 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
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