Anicet Kopliński

Anicet Adalbert Kopliński (né Koplin; 30 July 1875 – 16 October 1941) was a Polish Capuchin friar of German descent and priest in Warsaw.

He is one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II who were beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1999.

Life Antoni Adalberta Koplin was born in Debrzno, (then part of Prussia), to a Catholic father and a Lutheran mother, and was the second of 12 children. As a child, he was ill, and decided that if he lived, he would become a Capuchin and did so after finishing high school in 1893.

During WWI, he was a chaplain to German prisons, and to prisoners of war. He also wrote poetry.

He and 20 other Capuchins at the Warsaw monastery were arrested in June 1941.