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