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Emil Szramek

Polish priest, blessed of the Catholic Church (1887–1942)

BlessedGerman Empire

Feast: 9 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
1887
Died
1942
Beatified
not on record
Canonised
not yet

Who they were

Emil Szramek (29 September 1887 – 13 January 1942) was a Polish and Roman Catholic priest. He graduated from the University of Wrocław. He died in a Nazi concentration camp at Dachau. He is one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II who were beatified in 1999 by Pope John Paul II.

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The miracles

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Why that counted as sanctity

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Sources
  • Wikidata Q2319675 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
  • English Wikipedia — Emil Szramek (CC BY-SA)

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