Franciszek Drzewiecki
(1908–1942)
Martyr, Priest
one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II / jeden ze 108 błogosławionych męczenników
Orders/Societies Associated with: Orionine Fathers / Orionini*
Place of birth:Kingdom of Poland (Vistula Land / Russian Poland)†
Place of death:Hartheim Killing Centre (Austria)††
Place(s) associated with:Dachau Concentration Camp†††; Ląd Abbey (Nazi transit camp)††††
Feastday
10 August
Beatification
13/06/1999 by Ioannes Paulus II
*Sons of Divine Providence / Congregatione Parvi Operis a Divina Providentia / Figli della Divina Provvidenza / Piccola opera della Divina Provvidenza [1903]
†Królestwo Polskie (Kraj Nadwiślański) / Царство Польское (Привислинский край) [1867–1915]
††NS-Tötungsanstalt Hartheim (Österreich) [1939–1945]
†††KZ Dachau / Konzentrationslager Dachau / Konzentrazioonslaager Dachau [1933–1945]
††††Kloster Lond (Nationalsozialistische Durchgangslager) / Opactwo Cystersów w Lądzie (nazistowski obóz przejściowy) [1939–1941]
Saints
This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.
The names of the saints are listed as they would have appeared in the time the saint lived (to the best I can determine). Click on the saint’s name in the list to see more information about that saint. If you wish to see saints for a different date, select that date below. Or you can select a saint by their name or by places they are associated with.
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Sources
Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:
D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.
Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.
Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.
Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990
and the following websites:
and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia