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Hilary Paweł Januszewski

Polish Carmelite friar and beatified person (1907–1945)

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Feast: 25 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
1907
Died
1945
Beatified
not on record
Canonised
not yet

Who they were

In the prison camp of Dachau near Munich in Bavaria in Germany, Blessed Hilary Januszewski, priest of the Order of Discalced Brothers of the Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel and martyr: in time of war, he was deported because of his faith in Christ from Poland to this foreign prison; having caught typhus while caring for the sick, he died outstanding in faith and charity.

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 25 March as a Carmelite priest and martyr who died at Dachau of typhus caught while caring for the sick.

Sources

Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.

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