"It is the saints who change the world for the better, they transform it in a lasting way, injecting in it energies that only love inspired by the Gospel can arouse. The saints are the great benefactors of humanity!" Pope Benedict XVI
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Day 266 -- Blessed Antoni Julian Nowowiejski
Blessed Antoni Julian Nowowiejski was born on February 11, 1858 and was ordained bishop of Plock, Poland on June 12, 1908. He was made archbishop of Plock on November 25, 1930. He was martyred on May 28, 1941 at the Dzialdowo death camp, Poland and is one of the 108 Polish Martyrs of World War II. He was beatified on June 13, 1999 in Warsaw, Poland by Pope John Paul II.
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