1591 Strachocina, Sandomir Palatine, Lesser Poland, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Died
16 May 1657 Janów, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Venerated in
Roman Catholicism
Beatified
30 October 1853, Rome, Papal States by Pope Pius IX
Canonized
17 April 1938, Vatican City by Pope Pius XI
Major shrine
Shrine of Saint Andrew Bobola, Warsaw, Poland
Feast
16 May
Patronage
Poland; Archdiocese of Warsaw
Andrew Bobola, SJ (Polish: Andrzej Bobola; 1591 – 16 May 1657) was a Polish missionary and martyr of the Society of Jesus, known as the Apostle of Lithuania and the "hunter of souls".[1] He was beaten and tortured to death during the Khmelnytsky Uprising. He was canonized in 1938 by Pope Pius XI.
^Merrick, David Andrew (1891). Saints of the Society of Jesus: With a sketch of the Society. William H. Sadlier. p. 16.
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