⛪ Saint of the Day : February 19
⛪ Born :
5 March 1904 in Jerka, Wielkopolskie, Poland
⛪ Died :
19 February 1945 at the Nazi concentration camp Dachau, Oberbayern, Germany of typhus and abuse
⛪ Beatified :
13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II
Blessed Jozef, professed religious of the Congregation of the friars of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, was born in Jerka at Koscian March 5, 1904 and died in Dachau, Germany, February 19, 1945. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in Warsaw (Poland) on June 13, 1999 with 107 other Polish martyrs.
Roman Martyrology: In the prison camp near Dachau Monaco of Bavaria in Germany, blessed Joseph Zaplata, religious of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and martyr, who tranferred for his faith with violence from Poland, his homeland, to a cruel imprisonment, suffering from disease brought to completion his martyrdom.
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- ⛪ St. Calminius: Hermit and Founder of Mozac Abbey
- ⛪ St. Sebaldus: Patron Saint of Nuremberg
- ⛪ Blessed Jordan of Pisa: Dominican Preacher and Innovator
- ⛪ Martyrs of Illyria: Sts. Florus, Laurus, Maximus, and Proculus
- ⛪ Blessed Sebastian of Nancy: Capuchin Martyr of Rochefort
- ⛪ Blessed Protasius of Séez: Capuchin Martyr of Rochefort
- ⛪ Blessed Jean-Louis Loir de Besançon - Capuchin Martyr of Rochefort
- ⛪ Saints Florus and Laurus
- ⛪ Saint Alberto Hurtado SJ : Chile’s Apostle of Social Justice
- ⛪ Saint Jeanne of the Cross Delanoue - Foundress and Servant of the Poor
- ⛪ Saint Eusebius
- ⛪ Saint Myron of Cyzicus
- ⛪ Saint Mammes of Caesarea
- ⛪ Saint Roch
- ⛪ The Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major
- ⛪ Saint John Vianney
- ⛪ Saint Pompilio Maria Pirrotti
- ⛪ Saint Luigi Scrosoppi of Udine
- ⛪ Saint John Payne: Martyr of England’s Faith
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- ⛪ Saint Nicetius of Lyon: A Holy Bishop Who Trusted God
- ⛪ Blessed Zofia Czeska-Maciejowska: Mother of Mercy and Education
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- ⛪ Blessed Luigi Variara - Priest
- ⛪ Blessed Adam Arakawa - Martyr
- ⛪ Blessed Rafaela Ybarra Arambarri de Vilallonga - Religious
- ⛪ Blessed Josephine Vannini - Religious
- ⛪ Blessed Mary Teresa Bonzel - Nun
- ⛪ Saint Francesco Spinelli - Priest
- ⛪ Saint Theophilus the Lawyer
- ⛪ Blessed Angelo da Furci - Priest
- ⛪ Saint Guarinus of Palestrina - Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
- ⛪ Saint Adelaide of Guelders - Abbess of Vilich
- ⛪ Saint Joseph of Leonessa - Martyr
- ⛪ Saint Ansgar - Apostle of the North
- ⛪ Saint Giovanni Battista Clemente Saggio - Religious
- ⛪ Little Nelly of Holy God
- ⛪ Blessed Andrea Carlo Ferrari - Bishop
- ⛪ Blessed Peter Cambiano
- ⛪ Blessed Louis Alexander Alphonse Brisson - Priest
- ⛪ Saint Jean-Théophane Vénard
- ⛪ Saint Maria Katharina Kasper - Religious
- ⛪ Saint Severus of Avranches
- ⛪ Saint Veridiana
- ⛪ Saint Henry Morse - Martyr
- ⛪ Blessed Andrew Segni - Confessor, First Order
- ⛪ Blessed Anna Michelotti - Nun