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Edmund Bojanowski
Polish beatified noble (1814–1871)
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Feast: 7 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1814
Died
1871
Beatified
13 June 1999
unverified
Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
In the small town of Górka Duchowna near Poznań in Poland, Blessed Edmund Bojanowski, who worked with great commitment to instruct the poor and peasants in the precepts of the Gospel and founded the Congregation of the Handmaids of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God.
The miracles
The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 7 August as the founder of the Handmaids of the Immaculate Conception who taught the Gospel to the poor and peasants.
Connected on this site
- Vincent de Paul Saint“Vincent de Paul led to his contemporaries famously nicknaming him the "second St.” — Wikipedia
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 7 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q672047 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Edmund Bojanowski (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.