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Edward Klinik

Polish resistance fighter and Roman Catholic martyr (1919–1942)

BlessedPoland

Feast: 12 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
1919
Died
1942
Beatified
not on record
Canonised
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Who they were

Edward Klinik (21 July 1919 – 24 August 1942) was a Polish Roman Catholic anti-Nazi resistance fighter. One of the Poznań Five (Poznańska Piątka), he was guillotined in a prison in Dresden for his resistance work. He is one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II who were beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1999.

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The miracles

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Why that counted as sanctity

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Sources
  • Wikidata Q95016 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
  • English Wikipedia — Edward Klinik (CC BY-SA)

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