20 December 1576 Skoczów, Silesia, Crown of Bohemia (now Poland)
Died
17 March 1620(1620-03-17) (aged 43) Olomouc, Moravia, Crown of Bohemia (now the Czech Republic)
Venerated in
Roman Catholic Church
Beatified
6 May 1860, Saint Peter's Basilica by Pope Pius IX
Canonized
21 May 1995[1], Olomouc, Czech Republic by Pope John Paul II
Feast
17 March
Jan Sarkander (Czech and Polish: Jan Sarkander) (20 December 1576 – 17 March 1620[2]) was a Polish-Czech Roman Catholic priest.[3] Sarkander was married for a short period of time before he became widowed and pursued a path to the priesthood where he became active in defence of Catholicism during a period of anti-Catholic sentiment and conflict. He himself was arrested on false accusations as a means of silencing him and he refused to give in to his tormenters who tortured him for around a month before he died.
Pope Pius IX beatified Sarkander at Saint Peter's Basilica in 1860 and Pope John Paul II canonized him as a saint in 1995 on his visit to the Czech Republic.
^Chronique, Éditions; Larebière, Bruno (2013). Jean-Paul II (in French). Éditions Chronique. ISBN 979-10-90871-95-3.
^Saint Jan Sarkander Article in French
^"Saint Jan Sarkander". Saints SQPN. 31 May 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
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