Vatican City: Pope Leo XIV has authorized the beatification of eleven clergy, including nine Polish priests who suffered martyrdom in the Nazi concentration camps of Dachau and Auschwitz, and two diocesan priests from former Czechoslovakia who were executed during the Communist regime in the early 1950s. In addition, the Pope promulgated decrees recognizing the heroic virtues of four Servants of God, elevating them to the status of Venerable.

During an audience with Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, the Pope confirmed that the nine Polish Salesians Jan Świerc, Ignacy Antonowicz, Ignacy Dobiasz, Karol Golda, Franciszek Harazim, Ludwik Mroczek, Włodzimierz Szembek, Kazimierz Wojciechowski, and Franciszek Miśka were martyred between 1941 and 194

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