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| Blessed Boniface Zukowski, Pray for us ! |
⛪ Other Names :
• Bonifacy Zukowski • Piotr Zukowski • Prisoner #25447
⛪ Memorial :
• 10 April
• 12 June as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II
⛪ Born :
• 13 January 1913 in Rapa-Baran, Nemencine, Vilniaus rajonas, Lithuania as Piotr Zukowski
⛪ Died :
• 10 April 1942 of pneumonia in the camp infirmary of Dachau, Oberbayern, Germany
Boniface Zukowski ( Polish : Piotr Ε»ukowski , born on January 13 , 1913 at Baran-Rapa, died at Auschwitz on April 10 , 1942) is a conventual Franciscan martyr of Nazism, beatified by John Paul II on June 13, 1999; he is celebrated on April 10th.
Piotr Ε»ukowski was born in Baran-Rapa by Andrzej Zukowski and Albina Walkiewicz in the Vilnius region of Lithuania ; it is used primarily for agricultural work. At the age of sixteen, the young man enters the Franciscan Conventual Minor Order at the monastery of Niepokalanow, where he will spend the rest of his life. He takes the name of Brother Boniface ( Polish : Bonifacy ); he makes his simple wishes the July 16 , 1932 and the solemn ones August 2 , 1935. He participates in the apostolate of Father Maximilian Kolbe who produces the bulletin The Knight of the Immaculate . He was ordained priest 1 .
During the first searches of the Gestapo, he puts his life in danger to protect the typographic machines of the convent. He is arrested with six other brothers 2 , including brother TimothΓ©e , the October 11 , 1941. First imprisoned in Warsaw, he was deported to Auschwitz on January 8 , 1942(No. 25447) with Brother Timothy. He died of pneumonia in the camp infirmary on April 10, 1942.
Boniface Zukowski was beatified by Pope John Paul II 13 June 1999 3 among 108 martyrs of World War II , on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church.