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Antoni Leszczewicz

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Antoni Leszczewicz

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]

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