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Janina Woynarowska

Polish nurse, Roman Catholic venerable

VenerablePoland

Born

10 May 1923

Vatican record

Died

24 November 1979

Vatican record

Venerable

21 May 2022

Vatican record

Canonised

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not yet

The Vatican record

21 May 2022 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2022)

Who they were

Nurse; born in Piwniczna-Zdrój; died in Kraków.

The miracles

No miracle approved yet

The Church has declared this person’s heroic virtue, which is what the title Venerable means. One approved miracle is needed before beatification.

Why that counted as sanctity

Limited information available on this saint.

Sources

Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
Wikidata Q11719885 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)

Not yet written up in full. The dates and the step marked “Vatican record” come from the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints; the rest comes from Wikidata and is not yet checked.