Antoni Leszczewicz
Belarusian Roman Catholic priest, missionary, and martyr (1890–1943)
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Blessed Antoni Leszczewicz | |
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Born | (1890-09-30)30 September 1890 Abramaǔščyna 1 [be], Russian Empire (now Belarus) |
Died | 18 February 1943(1943-02-18) (aged 52) Rositsa [be], Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union (now Belarus) |
Venerated in | Catholic Church |
Beatified | 13 June 1999, Warsaw by Pope John Paul II |
Feast | 12 June |
Antoni Leszczewicz (Belarusian: Антоній Ляшчэвіч, romanized: Antonij Liaščevič; 30 September 1890 – 18 February 1943) was a Polish-Belarusian Marian Father and Roman Catholic priest. He was a missionary in China for two decades in the interwar period.
He is one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II who was burned alive with a group of parishioners by the Nazis in Belarus in 1943. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in the 1990s. [1]
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