Antoni Leszczewicz

Born(1890-09-30)30 September 1890
Abramaǔščyna 1, Russian Empire (now Belarus)
Died18 February 1943(1943-02-18) (aged 52)
Rositsa, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union (now Belarus)
Venerated inCatholic Church
Beatified13 June 1999, Warsaw by Pope John Paul II
Feast12 June

Antoni Leszczewicz (Belarusian: Антоній Ляшчэвіч, romanized: Antonij Liaščevič; 30 September 1890 – 18 February 1943) was a Polish-Belarusian Marian Father and Roman Catholic priest. He was a missionary in China for two decades in the interwar period.

He is one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II who was burned alive with a group of parishioners by the Nazis in Belarus in 1943. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in the 1990s. [1]

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