Born under the name of Joseph Adalbert Guz on March 18, 1890 in Lemberg, Austria (present-day Lviv, Ukraine), he entered the Franciscans in 1908, where he took the name of Innocent.

There he became acquainted with the father Maximilian Kolbe and entered the Mission of the Immaculate, founded by the latter, to become a confessor and professor from 1933 to 1936.

[1] During the occupation of 1939, while the USSR occupied the East and the German Reich the West of Poland, he was transferred to Grodno.

He was then arrested and imprisoned on March 21, 1940, by the Soviets who put in place a policy of anti-Christian repression.

[2] Considered one of the hundred and eight Polish martyrs of the Second World War, he was beatified on June 13, 1999 by Pope John Paul II in Warsaw.