Blessed Czeslaw Jozwiak
- 24 August
- 12 June as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II
Profile
Son of a police officer in the archdiocese of Poznan, Poland, Czeslaw was educated by the Salesians. Member of the Salesian youth oratory. When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, he was forced to leave school and found work in a cosmetics shop. Martyred in the Nazi persecutions.
Born
- 7 September 1919 in Lazyn, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland
- guillotined on 24 August 1942 in Dresden, Germany
- 26 March 1999 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)
- 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II in Warsaw, Poland
MLA Citation
- “Blessed Czeslaw Jozwiak“. CatholicSaints.Info. 14 January 2018. Web. 13 July 2020. <>