Franciszek Harazim

Who they were

Franciszek Harazim, born at Osiny on 22 August 1885, trained in the Salesian houses of study in Poland and at Ivrea, where he was ordained priest in 1915, and returned home to teach in Salesian schools and in the Salesian major seminary of Kraków. Arrested on 23 May 1941 and held in the Montelupich prison, he was taken to the camp at Auschwitz, where he died on 26 June 1941 from beatings and ill-treatment. He was beatified on 6 June 2026 by Pope Leo XIV.

The miracles

The source does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.

Why that counted as sanctity

A Salesian teacher of the Kraków seminary, he was taken to Auschwitz and died there of beatings and ill-treatment.