Time Line 1943
- canonization of Saint Margaret of Hungary
- death of Blessed Caritas Brader
- death of Blessed Eustáquio van Lieshout
- death of Venerable Francesco Pianzola
- martyrdom of Blessed Antoni Beszta-Borowski
- martyrdom of Blessed Antoni Leszczewicz
- martyrdom of Blessed Bernhard Lichtenberg
- martyrdom of Blessed Franz Jägerstätter
- martyrdom of Blessed Mary Restituta Kafka
- martyrdom of Blessed Michaël Kozal
- founding of the diocese of Youngstown, Ohio
- release of The Song of Bernadette, a film telling the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous and Our Lady of Lourdes
- USS Dorchester torpedoed by a German sub and went down with a loss of 600 lives, four them chaplains, one a Catholic priest, who gave up their life jackets to shipmates; Congress afterward to designated 3 February as Four Chaplains Day
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