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Zygmunt Sajna
BlessedResearchedSecond Polish Republic
Feast: 12 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1897
Died
1940
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
In the Palmiry forest near Warsaw in Poland, Blessed Zygmunt Sajna, priest and martyr, who, during the war, died by firing squad for refusing to deny the faith before a foreign regime hostile to God.
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 17 September as a priest shot in the Palmiry forest for refusing to deny the faith.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 17 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q4405246 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.