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Dominik Jędrzejewski
Polish priest (1886-1942)
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Feast: 29 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1886
Died
1942
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
In the prison camp of Dachau near Munich in Bavaria in Germany, Blessed Dominik Jędrzejewski, priest and martyr, who, deported from Poland during the war to a foreign prison, died for Christ under torture.
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 29 August as a Polish priest who died for Christ under torture at Dachau.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 29 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q4175582 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Dominik Jędrzejewski (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.