Józef Sebastian Pelczar

(1842–1924)
Bishop (of Przemyśl), Co-Founder, Priest
Orders/Societies Associated with: Sister Servants of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus / Siostry sercanki / Pelczarkami*
Place of birth:Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland / Russian Poland)††
Place of death:Republic of Poland (Second Polish Republic)†††
Feastday
19 January
Beatification
02/06/1991 by Ioannes Paulus II
Canonisation
18/05/2003 by Ioannes Paulus II
*Congregatio Servularum Sacratissimi Cordis Iesu / Zgromadzenie Służebnic Najświętszego Serca Jezusowego [1894]
Premislia / פשעמישל / Перемишль / Premissel
††Królestwo Polskie (Królestwo Kongresowe) / Царство Польское (Конгрессовой Польшей) [1815–1867]
†††Rzeczpospolita Polska (II Rzeczpospolita) [1918–1939]

Saints

This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.

The names of the saints are listed as they would have appeared in the time the saint lived (to the best I can determine). Click on the saint’s name in the list to see more information about that saint. If you wish to see saints for a different date, select that date below. Or you can select a saint by their name or by places they are associated with.

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Sources

Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:
D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.
Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.
Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.
Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990
and the following websites:
and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia