Antonin Bajewski
Antonin Bajewski (17 January 1915 – 18 May 1941), born Jan Eugene Bajewski, was a Polish Franciscan friar. He has been declared a martyr by the Catholic Church following his death in Auschwitz Concentration Camp in 1941 and was beatified as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II by the Polish Pope John-Paul II on 13 June 1999. Their collective feast day is 12 June.
Life
He was born in Vilnius in 1915.[1] He became a Franciscan in 1934, taking the name Brother Antonin. He was ordained a priest in 1939 and became vicar to Maximilian Kolbe. He and Kolbe were both arrested by the Germans in 1941 and Antonin was imprisoned. He boosted the other prisoners' morale and gave them his rations, before being deported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp, where he contracted typhoid fever. This proved fatal and he died on 18 May 1941.[2][1]
References
- ^ a b Site officiel du Vatican, Les martyrs proclamés par Jean-Paul II, 1999, le 13 juin, « 97. Antonio Bajewski ».
- ^ (in French) Nominis, « Bienheureux Antonin Bajewski ».
Bibliography
- (in Polish) Marek Darul, Błogosławiony ojciec Antonin Bajewski, Wydaw. Duszpasterstwa Rolników, 2001 ISBN 8388743198, 9788388743191, 63 pages.
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- Polish beatified people
- Clergy from Vilnius
- Polish Friars Minor
- 20th-century Roman Catholic martyrs
- Conventual Friars Minor
- 20th-century Polish Roman Catholic priests
- 20th-century Lithuanian Roman Catholic priests
- Polish people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp
- 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs
- Deaths from typhoid fever
- 1915 births
- 1941 deaths
- Infectious disease deaths in Poland