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Detail From An Icon Of Blessed Kamen Vitchev Blessed Pavel Djidjov And Blessed Josaphat Chichkov
Detail From An Icon Of Blessed Kamen Vitchev Blessed Pavel Djidjov And Blessed Josaphat Chichkov

Blessed Pavel Dzidzov

Also known as: Josef Dzidzov

Blessed
Post-Congregation

Feast Day

13-Nov

Born

19 July 1919 in Plovdiv, diocese of Plovdiv, Bulgaria as Josef Dzjidzjov

Died

Shot 11.30pm on 11 November 1952 by a Bulgarian Communist firing squad

Beatified

26 May 2002 by Pope John Paul II at Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Venerated

23 April 2002 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)

Biography

Blessed Pavel Dzidzov, also known as Josef Dzidzov, was born on 19 July 1919 in Plovdiv, within the diocese of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He entered the Congregation of the Assumption in 1926 and dedicated his life to the service of God and the Catholic Church.

Cause for Canonization

Beatified
Beatified2002-05-26 by 26 May 2002 by Pope John Paul II at Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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