Blessed Jadwiga Karolina Zak
Also known as: Hedvig Karolina Zak; Sister Maria Imelda of the Eucharistic Jesus
Feast Day
1-Aug
Born
27 December 1892 in Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland as Jadwiga Karolina Zak
Died
Machine-gunned by firing squad on 1 August 1943 by the Gestapo about three miles outside Novogrudok (Nowogródek), Hrodzyenskaya voblasts’, in Nazi occupied Belarus; buried on the site of the execution in a common grave; one of their surviving sisters, Maria Malgorzata Banas, located the grave on 19 March 1945 and tended to it until her death in 1966; relics re-interred in a common sarcophagus in the chapel of the Novograd Farny Church (the Church of the Transfiguration, also known as Biala Fara or the White Church)
Beatified
5 March 2000 by Pope John Paul II in Rome, Italy
Venerated
28 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)
Biography
Blessed Jadwiga Karolina Zak, also known as Hedvig Karolina Zak and Sister Maria Imelda of the Eucharistic Jesus, was a professed religious sister and martyr of the Catholic Church. She was born on 27 December 1892 in Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland, to a devout Catholic family.
Cause for Canonization
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