Blessed Władysław Findysz (1907-1964)

Born to pious peasants, he entered the seminary in 1927. he was ordained in 1932. On 3 October 1944 he and the rest of the town of Nowy Zmigród were expelled by the retreating German army. Having survived the oppression of the Nazis, he returned on 23 January 1945 to rebuild the parish, and to care for war refugees under the oppression of the Communists. Until his death he was under surveillance of the secret police. In 1963 he started the Conciliar Works of Charity, a letter writing campaign to parishioners to exhort them to return to the Church, and to spread the word of the reforms of Vatican II. The Communists took a very dim view of this work, and on 25 November 1963 he was arrested and imprisoned. A standard show trial was conducted on 16 and 17 December 1963, and he was given a 30 month sentence for the crime of “forcing” religion on his parishioners. This was followed by (also standard) series of published slanders and lies to discredit him while he was being abused and starved in prison. Transferred to the central prison hospital on 25 January 1964, his health broken, and suffering from cancer of the esophagus. He was released from prison but died soon thereafter. He was beatified in 2005.
(From saints.sqpn.com)