Time Line 1943
Births
- Archbishop Joseph Augustine Di Noia
- Archbishop Pierre-Andre Fournier
- Bishop Valentino Di Cerbo
- Father Christopher Shepherd-Smith
- Venerable Maria Rosa Zorza
- Venerable Nicola D’Onofrio
- Blessed Eduardo Francisco Pironio
- Blessed Ejëll Deda
- Blessed Mario Ghibaudo
- Blessed Pere Tarrés i Claret
- Saint Auguste Chapdelaine
- Venerable Giuseppe Marrazzo
- Blessed Adela Mardosewicz
- Blessed Alois Andritzki
- Blessed Anna Kukolowicz
- Blessed Antoni Beszta-Borowski
- Blessed Antoni Leszczewicz
- Blessed Bernhard Lichtenberg
- Blessed Eduard Müller
- Blessed Eleonora Aniela Józwik
- Blessed Eugenia Mackiewicz
- Blessed Eustáquio van Lieshout
- Blessed Francesco Pianzola
- Blessed Franz Jägerstätter
- Blessed Grzegorz Boleslaw Frackowiak
- Blessed Helena Cierpka
- Blessed Jakob Gapp
- Blessed Jerzy Kaszyra
- Blessed Józef Puchala
- Blessed Józefa Chrobot
- Blessed Julia Rapiej
- Blessed Karol Stepien
- Blessed Leokadia Matuszewska
- Blessed Lojze Grozde
- Blessed Maria Caridad Brader
- Blessed Maria Klemensa Staszewska
- Blessed Marian Konopinski Poznan
- Blessed Marianna Biernacka
- Blessed Mario Ghibaudo
- Blessed Mary Restituta Kafka
- Blessed Michaël Kozal
- Blessed Paulina Borowik
- Blessed Roman Archutowski
- Blessed Weronika Narmontowicz
- Blessed Zygmunt Pisarski
- Father Avertan Fenech
- Saint Nazaria Ignacia March y Mesa
- Venerable Giuseppe Carlo Vaser
- Venerable Juan Vicente of Jesus and Mary
- Venerable Luigi Maria Olivares
- Venerable Olga Gugelmo
- Venerable Siman Sruji
- Blessed Innocent of Berzo
- Franciscan Martyrs of China
- Saint André Bauer
- Saint Cesidio Giacomantonio
- Saint Elia Facchini
- Saint Francesco Fogolla
- Saint Franciscus Zhang Rong
- Saint Gregorio Grassi
- Saint Iacobus Yan Guodong
- Saint Iacobus Zhao Quanxin
- Saint Ioannes Wang Rui
- Saint Ioannes Zhang Huan
- Saint Ioannes Zhang Jingguang
- Saint Jeanne-Marie Kerguin
- Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
- Saint Maria Chaira
- Saint Marianna Giuliani
- Saint Marie Adolphine Dierks
- Saint Marie Amandine
- Saint Marie de Saint Just
- Saint Mary Hermina Grivot
- Saint Matthias Feng De
- Saint Patricius Dong
- Saint Petrus Wang Erman
- Saint Petrus Wu Anbang
- Saint Petrus Zhang Banniu
- Saint Philippus Zhang Zhihe
- Saint Simon Chen
- Saint Thomas Shen Jihe
- Saint Vincenza María López y Vicuña
Founded
Elevations
- Mystici Corporis Christi – On the Mystical Body of Christ, by Pope Pius XII, 29 June 1943
- The Catholic Doctrine of Purgatory, by Cardinal William O’Connell
Other Events
- release of The Song of Bernadette, a film telling the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous and Our Lady of Lourdes
- USS Dorchester torpedoed by a German sub and went down with a loss of 600 lives, four them chaplains, one a Catholic priest, who gave up their life jackets to shipmates; Congress afterward to designated 3 February as Four Chaplains Day
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