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Blessed Augustus Czartoryski Date Location And Photographer Unknown
Blessed Augustus Czartoryski Date Location And Photographer Unknown

Blessed Augustus Czartoryski

Also known as: Prince August Franciszek Maria Anna Józef Kajetan Czartoryski; Duke of Vista Alegre

Blessed
Post-Congregation

Feast Day

8-Apr

Born

2 August 1858 in Paris, France

Died

Evening of 8 April, 1893 in Alassio, Savona, Italy of tuberculosis; interred in in the family mausoleum in the parish crypt in Sieniawa, Poland; re-interred in the Salesian church in Przemysl, Poland

Beatified

25 April 2004 in Pope John Paul II in Rome, Italy

Venerated

1 December 1978 in Pope John Paul II (decree of heroic virtue)

Biography

Blessed Augustus Czartoryski, also known as Prince August Franciszek Maria Anna Józef Kajetan Czartoryski, was born on 2 August 1858 in Paris, France. He was the oldest child of Prince Ladislaus and Princess Maria Amparo, daughter of the Queen of Spain. However, the family faced great adversity as they lost all their property and were exiled during the 1830 revolution. They settled in Paris and it was there that young Augustus spent his early years.

Cause for Canonization

Beatified
Beatified2004-04-25 by 25 April 2004 in Pope John Paul II in Rome, Italy
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