Blessed Alfons Maria Mazurek
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- Also known as
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Alphonsus Mary of the Holy Spirit
Joseph Mazurek
- Memorial
- 28 August
- Profile
- Discalced Carmelite friar, taking the name Alfons Maria of the Holy Spirit.
Ordained in July 1916.
Teacher and noted administrator.
Professor at the Carmelite minor seminary.
Prefect of the seminary.
Prior of the Carmelite monastery at Czerna, Poland in 1930.
Under his leadership, the house renewed their evangelization work in the community.
Murdered by Nazis for being a Christian leader.
One of the 108 Polish Martyrs of World War II.
- Born
- 1 March 1891 at Baranowka, Poland as Joseph Mazurek
- Died
- beaten then shot on 28 August 1944 in Nawojowa Gora
- Venerated
- 23 March 1999 by Pope John Paul II
- Beatified
- 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II at Warsaw, Poland
- Canonized
- pending;
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Postulacja Generalna Procesu Meczenników Kosciola w Polsce
ul. Karnkowskiego 3
87-800 Wloclawek, POLAND
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- Readings
- All our sanctity and perfection consists in conforming ourselves to the will of God, which is the sole and supreme rule of perfection and of holiness.
- Blessed Alfons