Blessed Jarogniew Wojciechowski

Blessed Jarogniew Wojciechowski

1922–1942 · Contemporary

Feast day: August 24

Biography

Jarogniew Wojciechowski (born November 5, 1922, in Poznań; died August 24, 1942, in Dresden) was a Polish youth and a student of the Salesians of Don Bosco. During the German occupation of Poland, he was sentenced to death by the Nazi judiciary and executed in 1942 alongside other young Poles. He is venerated as a Polish martyr by the Roman Catholic Church and was beatified by Pope John Paul II.

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