Fidelis Chojnacki

Fidelis Chojnacki (1 November 1906 – 9 July 1942) was a Polish Capuchin friar and Roman Catholic priest. He was imprisoned in the Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He is one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II.

Life Born in Łódź, Fidelis was the youngest of the six children of Wacław and Leokadia (née Sprusińska). After graduating from high school, he worked for a year at the Cadet School of the Higher School of Physical Education, then he worked as a clerk at the Institute of Social Insurance in Szczuczyn Nowogródzki and at the main post office of Warsaw. He was an administrator of Catholic Action and helped recovering addicts.

He joined the Capuchin Order on 27 August 1933 in Nowe Miasto.