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Karol Herman Stępień
Polish Roman Catholic priest and martyr (1910–1943)
SaintResearchedSecond Polish RepublicFranciscansPost-1588
Feast: 19 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1910
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 Q4444781 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Hermann Stępień (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.