Blessed  TYMOTEUSZ
(Stanislaw Antoni) TROJANOWSKI

Conventual Franciscan friar, religious brother
(1908-1942)

Stanislaw Antoni Trojanowski was born on July 29th, 1908, in the village of Sadlowo, parish of Poniatów, dioceses of Plock; son of Ignacy and Franciszka Zebkiewicz. He was compelled by their financial difficulties to work from his earliest youth to support his family. For this reason, he attended only three years of the primary school.
On March 5th, 1930, he was accepted as candidate to the Franciscan life in the convent of the Conventual Franciscan Friars of Niepokalanów and, on January 6th, 1931, he began his noviciate, receiving the name Tymoteusz. 
He pronounced his temporary vows on February 2nd, 1932 and the perpetual ones on February 11th, 1935. 

He spent his whole religious life in Niepokalanów, mostly working in the posting department of the Rycerz Niepokalanej (Knight of the Immaculata), in the supplies storehouse and in the infirmary, where he did his outmost to help the ill friars. 
On May 3rd, 1937, he expressed to his superior his willingness to go in mission "everywhere and in every moment, at God's disposal". 
He was a well-disciplined friar, faithful to his Franciscan vocation, and the superior of the convent, Father Maximilian Kolbe, completely trusted him. 

MARTYRDOM

After the outbreak of the second World War, at the beginning of September 1939, he decided to remain in Niepokalanów. On October 14th, 1941, he was arrested by the Gestapo together with other six friars, including friar Bonifacy Lukowski, and shut up in the Pawiak prison in Warsaw. During the imprisonment, he prayed a lot, he infused courage into the others and he was always the first to undertake to do various servile tasks.
On January 8th, 1942, he was transported with Friar Bonifacy to the concentration camp of Oswiecim (Auchwitz), where he was registered with the number 25431. He was assigned to the transport of building materials in the "Bauhof" department, then to the digging and the transport of gravel in the "Kiesgruppe" department and, finally, to the harvest of oil seed rape. 
He bore with courage the hunger the cold and the hard labour. He didn't lose heart; he even encouraged his fellow prisoners and exhorting them to have confidence in the divine protection. Because of the cold he became ill with pneumonia and he died in the hospital of the lager (barrack) on July 28th, 1942.

Proclaimed "blessed" by John Paul II on June 13th, 1999.