Bl. Antoni Julian Nowowiejski

Antoni Julian Nowowiejski was born in 1858 at Libienie, Poland. He became Bishop of Płock, known for his spiritual life and his theological scholarship.

After the German invasion he was arrested in 1940. He refused a chance to escape, saying, "How can a shepherd abandon his sheep?"

He was held in the camp at Działdowo, where, though weakened by torture and hunger, he kept comforting his fellow prisoners. He died there in 1941. John Paul II beatified him in 1999 among the 108 Polish martyrs of the Second World War.

Antoni Julian Nowowiejski was beatified in 1999.

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