Antoni Leszczewicz Explained

Honorific Prefix:Blessed
Antoni Leszczewicz
Honorific Suffix:MIC
Venerated In:Catholic Church
Birth Date:30 September 1890
Birth Place:, Russian Empire (now Belarus)
Death Place:, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union (now Belarus)
Beatified Date:13 June 1999
Beatified Place:Warsaw
Beatified By:Pope John Paul II
Feast Day:12 June

Antoni Leszczewicz (Belarusian: Антоній Ляшчэвіч|translit=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]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.svaboda.org/a/774421.html Антоні Ляшчэвіч (Antoni Leszczewicz)