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Józef Achilles Puchała
Polish beatified person
SaintResearchedSecond Polish RepublicFranciscansPost-1588
Feast: 12 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1911
Died
1943
Beatified
—
not on record
Canonised
—
not on record
Who they were
In the town of Borowikowszczyzna in Poland, Blesseds Achilles Puchała and Herman Stępień, priests of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual and martyrs, who, during the occupation of Poland under a foreign military regime, were killed out of hatred of the faith.
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 19 July as a Conventual Franciscan priest killed out of hatred of the faith during the occupation of Poland.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 19 July (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q6320410 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Achilles Puchała (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.