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Stefan Grelewski

Polish presbyter (1898-1941)

BlessedResearchedSecond Polish Republic

Feast: 12 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
1898
Died
1941
Beatified
13 June 1999
unverified
Canonised
not yet

Who they were

In the prison camp of Dachau near Munich in Bavaria, Blessed Stefan Grelewski, priest and martyr, who, during the wartime military occupation of Poland, worn out by the cruel torments inflicted on him in prison by the persecutors of the Church, received the glorious crown of martyrdom.

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 9 May as a Polish priest martyred at Dachau, worn out by cruel torments.

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