Antoni Leszczewicz
Appearance
Antoni Leszczewicz (1890, Abramaǔščyna (now Smarhon district of Belarus) –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]
References
- ^ Антоні Ляшчэвіч (Antoni Leszczewicz) (in Belarusian)