Bl. Anicet Kopliński

Wojciech Kopliński was born in West Prussia. Drawn by the Capuchin friars' work for the poor, he joined them as Brother Anicet and was ordained a priest.

He was sent to Warsaw to help rebuild the Capuchins there. He spent his days hearing confessions and begging for the city's poor.

On June 27, 1941, the Germans arrested him with twenty-one other friars of his convent. He was taken to Pawiak prison and then to Auschwitz, where he died on October 16, 1941. John Paul II beatified him in 1999 among the 108 Polish martyrs of the Second World War.

Anicet Kopliński was beatified in 1999 by John Paul II.

Beatification allows public veneration, usually in a particular region or religious family. Canonization extends it to the whole Church.