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Antoni Leszczewicz (Belarusian: Антоній Ляшчэвіч, romanized: Antonij Liaščevič; 30 September 1890 – 18 February 1943) was a Polish-Belarusian Marian Father and Roman Catholic priest. He was a missionary in China for two decades in the interwar period.
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| Born | 30 September 1890 Abramaǔščyna 1, Russian Empire (now Belarus) |
| Died | 18 February 1943 (aged 52) Rositsa, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union (now Belarus) |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 13 June 1999, Warsaw by Pope John Paul II |
| Feast | 12 June |
He is one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II who was burned alive with a group of parishioners by the Nazis in Belarus in 1943. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in the 1990s. [1]
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- ^ Антоні Ляшчэвіч (Antoni Leszczewicz) (in Belarusian)
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