Saint Czesław Jóźwiak

Saint Czesław Jóźwiak

1919–1942 · Contemporary

Feast day: June 12

Biography

Czesław Jóźwiak (also known as Ceslaus; born September 7, 1919, in Łążyn near Bydgoszcz; died August 24, 1942, in Dresden) was a Polish resistance fighter associated with the Salesians of Don Bosco. During the German occupation of Poland, he was sentenced to death by the Nazi judiciary along with other young Poles and executed in 1942. He is venerated as a martyr in the Roman Catholic Church and was beatified by Pope John Paul II.

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