Alfons Mazurek
BlessedAugust 28 · 1891–1944
Alfons Mazurek (1891, Baranówka, Lesser Poland Voivodeship — 1944, Nawojowa Góra) — Blessed, Catholic priest. Feast day: 28 August.
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Alfons Mazurek, born Józef Mazurek in 1891, was a Polish Discalced Carmelite priest who served as a rector and professor. After entering the novitiate in Czerna in 1908, he was ordained in Kraków in 1916. He later held the position of prior in Czerna, starting in 1930, where he contributed to the order by writing hymns and new statutes. His life ended during the Second World War when he was executed by the Gestapo in 1944.

