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Franciszek Blachnicki
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Franciszek Blachnicki (24 March 1921 – 27 February 1987) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Light-Life movement - also known as the Oasis Movement - and the Secular Institute of the Immaculate Mother of the Church. He founded several other movements and religious congregations that would address a range of social and ethical issues. These issues included anti-alcoholism and human rights. His movements first came about after starting out as simple retreats designed for both altar servers and families that later began to address a series of issues in Poland at the time. His concern for human rights came during the communist era in Poland as well as his experiences as a prisoner of war during World War II in which he was incarcerated in Auschwitz and other concentration camps under the German Nazi regime.
Blachnicki's beatification process opened in Poland in the 1990s and he became titled as a Servant of God upon the cause's commencement. The decisive moment in the process came on 30 September 2015 after Pope Francis confirmed his heroic virtue and titled him as Venerable.
Franciszek Blachnicki was born on 24 March 1921 in Upper Silesia (then Germany) as the seventh-born child to Józef Blachnicki and Maria Miller. He had at least one brother.
He finished school in 1938. In September 1939 he participated in the campaign to fight against the invading German armed forces at the outbreak of World War II. But his involvement in this campaign led to the Gestapo arresting him on 24 June 1940 that saw an investigation and Blachnicki thrown into the notorious German Auschwitz concentration camp as prisoner 1201. He was later transferred on 19 September 1941 to a prison in Zabrze and later to Katowice where a further investigation into the charges against him was launched. On 30 March 1942 he was sentenced to death for having conspired against the Nazi regime and was scheduled to be beheaded at the guillotine.
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