Blessed Kazimierz Grelewski hanged on 9 January 1942 in the prison camp at Dachau, Oberbayern, Germany. Priest in the diocese of Radom, Poland. Arrested by the Gestapo on 24 January 1941 and deported to the Dachau concentration camp as part of the Nazi persecution of Christians. Martyr. He is the younger brother of Blessed Stefan Grelewski.
Witnesses of his anguish reported that one day in the Dachau camp "a kapo struck him and knocked him down to earth." Father Kazimierz rose, made a sign of the cross from the attacker and said: "God forgive you." After these words, the kapo attacked him, again It would overturn him) and shouted: "I will send you to your God in a moment." He was deprived of life on January 9, 1942 by hanging on the camp gallows, and at the last moment he called to the executioners: "Love God!"
Bl. Kazimierz pray for us, amen.+
Witnesses of his anguish reported that one day in the Dachau camp "a kapo struck him and knocked him down to earth." Father Kazimierz rose, made a sign of the cross from the attacker and said: "God forgive you." After these words, the kapo attacked him, again It would overturn him) and shouted: "I will send you to your God in a moment." He was deprived of life on January 9, 1942 by hanging on the camp gallows, and at the last moment he called to the executioners: "Love God!"
Bl. Kazimierz pray for us, amen.+
Blessed Kazimierz Grelewski hanged on 9 January 1942 in the prison camp at Dachau, Oberbayern, Germany. Priest in the diocese of Radom, Poland. Arrested by the Gestapo on 24 January 1941 and deported to the Dachau concentration camp as part of the Nazi persecution of Christians. Martyr. He is the younger brother of Blessed Stefan Grelewski.
Witnesses of his anguish reported that one day in the Dachau camp "a kapo struck him and knocked him down to earth." Father Kazimierz rose, made a sign of the cross from the attacker and said: "God forgive you." After these words, the kapo attacked him, again It would overturn him) and shouted: "I will send you to your God in a moment." He was deprived of life on January 9, 1942 by hanging on the camp gallows, and at the last moment he called to the executioners: "Love God!"
Bl. Kazimierz pray for us, amen.+
Witnesses of his anguish reported that one day in the Dachau camp "a kapo struck him and knocked him down to earth." Father Kazimierz rose, made a sign of the cross from the attacker and said: "God forgive you." After these words, the kapo attacked him, again It would overturn him) and shouted: "I will send you to your God in a moment." He was deprived of life on January 9, 1942 by hanging on the camp gallows, and at the last moment he called to the executioners: "Love God!"
Bl. Kazimierz pray for us, amen.+
