ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 19th of February WELCOME! BLESSED JÓZEF ZAPLATA, RELIGIOUS AND MARTYR Blessed Józef was born on March 5, 1904 in Jerka, Wielkopolskie, Poland. The son of a poor family of farmers, he joined the Brothers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, making his first profession on September 8, 1928 and his solemn vows on March 10, 1938 in Poznan, Poland. He was Sacristan of the church of Saint Elizabeth in Lwów, Poland (modern Lviv, Ukraine). After the beginning of WWII he worked as a porter at the Archbishop's house in Poznań. Arrested by the Gestapo, he was deported and imprisoned at various concentration camps. He died of typhus in Dachau concentration camp on February 19, 1945. After the initial outbreak of the disease in the camp, he had volunteered to tend to the sick, along with priests Fr Stephen Vincent Frelichowski, Fr Paul Januszewski, Fr Sigismund Mikołajewski, Fr George Stanislaus Musiał, Fr Stephen Zielonka and at least one G...