Blessed Stanislaw Mysakowski
- 14 October
- 12 June as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II
Profile
Priest in the archdiocese of Lublin, Poland. He served as a catechist and developed a personal ministry to the poor, the elderly and the handicapped. He was arrested with several other priests by the Gestapo in November 1939 as part of the Nazi occupation of Poland. For the crime of being a priest, he was sentenced to death, and over the next three years he was imprisoned and repeatedly tortured in the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps; he spent his time ministering to fellow prisoners. Martyr.
Born
- 14 September 1896 in Wojslawice, Lubelskie, Poland
- gassed on 14 October 1942 in the gas chambers of the prison camp at Dachau, Oberbayern, Germany
- 26 March 1999 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)
- 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II in Warsaw, Poland
MLA Citation
- “Blessed Stanislaw Mysakowski“. CatholicSaints.Info. 18 July 2021. Web. 25 April 2024. <>