Blessed Stefan Wyszynski

Blessed Stefan Wyszyński

Also known as: Primate of the Millennium; Radwan II (nickname used during World War II)

Blessed

Post-Congregation

Feast Day

28-May

Born

3 August 1901 in Zuzela, Ostrów Mazowiecka, Russian Empire (in modern Poland)

Died

28 May 1981 in Warsaw, Poland of abdominal cancer; buried at Saint John’s Cathedral, Warsaw, Miasto Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland

Beatified

12 September 2021 by Pope Francis; beatification celebrated in Warsaw, Poland presided by Cardinal Marcello Semeraro; the beatification miracle involves the healing of a 19 year-old woman from thyroid cancer in 1989

Venerated

18 December 2017 by Pope Francis (decree of heroic virtues)

Biography

Blessed Stefan Wyszyński, born to a modest member of the Polish nobility, experienced early hardship when his mother passed

Cause for Canonization

Beatified

Beatified2021-09-12 by 12 September 2021 by Pope Francis; beatification celebrated in Warsaw, Poland presided by Cardinal Marcello Semeraro; the beatification miracle involves the healing of a 19 year-old woman from thyroid cancer in 1989