Blessed Antoni Leszczewicz
Blessed
Post-Congregation
Feast Day
17 February; 12 June as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II
Born
30 September 1890 in Abramovsk, Vilniaus rajonas, Lithuania
Died
Burned to death on 17 February 1943 at the death camp in Rositsa, Vitebskaya voblasts’, Belarus
Beatified
13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II at Warsaw, Poland
Biography
Blessed Antoni Leszczewicz, also known as Antoni Lescevicius, was born on September 30, 1890, in Abramovsk, Vilniaus rajonas, Lithuania. He dedicated his life to the Catholic faith and became a priest, joining the Marians of the Immaculate Conception, a religious congregation founded in Poland in 1673.
Cause for Canonization
Beatified
Beatified1999-06-13 by 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II at Warsaw, Poland
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