Remembering Three Martyrs 80 Years After the End of World War II, by Filip Mazurczak Features

By Filip Mazurczak, Catholic World Report, May 25, 2025

Filip Mazurczak is a historian, translator, and journalist. His writing has appeared in First Things, the St. Austin Review, the European Conservative, the National Catholic Register, and many others. He teaches at the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow.

Our world is once again marked by bloody conflict, and it is an appropriate time to remember three unsung blessed martyrs of that cruel period as intercessors for our war-torn world.

May 8th marked the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II, the bloodiest conflict in human history, in which more than fifty million human lives were lost.

Today, our world is once again marked by bloody conflict, and it is an appropriate time to remember three unsung blessed martyrs of that cruel period—Bernhard Lichtenberg, Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski, and Emilian Kovch—as intercessors for our war-torn world. …

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