On 5 May 2023, at around 1pm, an unknown man attacked 80-year-old priest Fr. Leon Czerwiński, former parish priest of the Blessed Virgin Mary Queen of Poland in Pionki near Radom.
The priest, dressed in his clerical garb, a vestment with a burse of oil of the sick, was returning to the presbytery after visiting the sick. He was brutally attacked, thrown to the ground and beaten.