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Also known as

• Bonifacy Zukowski
• Piotr Zukowski
• prisoner #25447

Memorial

• 10 April
• 12 June as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II

Profile

Son of Andrzej Zukowski and Albina Walkiewicz and raised on a farm. Entered the Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Niepokalanów in Teresin, Poland at age 16, taking the name Bonifacy and making his solemn profession on 2 August 1935. Worked at the house’s printing presses, publishing The Knight of the Immaculate, helping in the work of Saint Maximilian Kolbe. Priest. Arrested by the Gestapo on 14 October 1941 for his publishing work and for trying to protect the printing presses, and imprisoned in Warsaw, Poland. He spent his time there ministering to other prisoners. Shipped to the Dachau concentration camp, he was put to forced labour in bad weather, beaten for lack of work, and finally died from the mistreatment. Martyr.

Born

• 13 January 1913 in Rapa-Baran, Nemencine, Vilniaus rajonas, Lithuania as Piotr Zukowski

Died

• 10 April 1942 of pneumonia in the camp infirmary of Dachau, Oberbayern, Germany

Venerated

• 26 March 1999 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

• 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II in Warsaw, Poland

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Boniface Zukowski“. CatholicSaints.Info. 13 April 2023. Web. 5 May 2024. <>