Roman Sitko
Polish Catholic priest (1880–1942)
Feast: 12 October (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 Roman Sitko, priest and martyr, who, during the occupation of Poland in the course of the war, cruelly tortured by the persecutors of human dignity and of the faith, passed to the vision of eternal beatitude.
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 12 October as a priest and martyr tortured to death at Auschwitz.
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, 12 October (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q4421094 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Roman Sitko (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.