 After three months of torture and hunger, he died, at the age of eighty-three, at the Dzialdowo death camp on 28 May 1941.The place of burial of his body is unknown, but it is supposed that it was a forest in Malinowo.He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 13 June 1999 as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II, and is commemorated on June 12.