Blessed Fidelis Jerome Chojnacki
Also known as: Fedele Chijnacki; Jerome Spurinska; Hieronim Chojnacki; prisoner 22473
Feast Day
9 July; 12 June as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War Two
Born
1 November 1906 at Lodz, Poland as Jerome Spurinska
Died
9 July 1942 at the Dachau concentration camp, Bavaria, Germany due to lengthy and assorted abuse; body burned in the camp’s crematorium ovens
Beatified
13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II
Venerated
26 March 1999 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)
Biography
Blessed Fidelis Jerome Chojnacki, also known as Fedele Chijnacki, Jerome Spurinska, and Hieronim Chojnacki, was born on 1 November 1906 in Lodz, Poland as Jerome Spurinska. He was the youngest of six children born to Waclaw and Leokadia Spurinska, and he was raised in a pious and devout Catholic family.
Cause for Canonization
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