Jerzy Kaszyra
Polish Roman Catholic priest (1904-1943)
Feast: 12 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Jury Kashyra (Polish: Jerzy Kaszyra; Belarusian: Юрый Кашыра; 4 April 1904 – 18 February 1943) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and a Belarusian apostle of the unity between Catholic and Orthodox Christians. He was murdered by the Nazi security forces and their collaborators in Operation Winterzauber, a punitive "bandit fighting" raid, together with his parishioners. Kashyra was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1999 together with the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q2986690 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Jury Kashyra (CC BY-SA)
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