ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 11th of December WELCOME! BLESSED KAZIMIERZ SYKULSKI, PRIEST AND MARTYR ⬅️ 108 Martyrs of World War II Kazimierz Sykulski was ordained a priest for the diocese of Radom, Poland, at the age of twenty-two. Assigned to a parish church in Konskie, he was remembered for his deep spirituality and his exceptional preaching. Following the invasion of Poland by the Nazis in the autumn of 1939 Father Sykulski organised relief efforts for the victims of the war. The Nazis threatened to imprison him. Aware of the danger, Father Sykulski told a parishioner: 'I cannot abandon my parish. I shall be with them, even if I shall be threatened with death.' He was arrested by the Nazis on October 1, 1941. During an interrogation he declared his willingness to lay down his life for his Church and his country. The fifty-eight-year-old priest was sent to Auschwitz where, on December 11, 1941, he was executed. Full of trust in divine providen...