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Stephen Pongracz
(1582–1619) slovak-hungarian saint
SaintResearchedHungarySociety of JesusDocumented cause
Feast: 7 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1582
Died
1619
Beatified
—
not on record
Canonised
2 July 1995
unverified
Who they were
At Košice in the Carpathian mountains, in present-day Slovakia, the holy martyrs Mark Crisin, priest of Esztergom, Stephen Pongracz and Melchior Grodziecki, priests of the Society of Jesus, whom neither hunger nor the tortures of the wheel and of fire could induce to deny the Catholic faith.
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 September as a Jesuit priest martyred at Košice whom no torture could make deny the Catholic faith.
Connected on this site
- Melchior Grodziecki Saint“At Košice in the Carpathian mountains, in present-day Slovakia, the holy martyrs Mark Crisin, priest of Esztergom, Stephen Pongracz and Melchior Grodziecki, priests of the Society of Jesus, whom neither hunger nor the tortures of the wheel and of fire could induce to deny the Catholic faith.” — this site's research
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 7 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q832681 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Stephen Pongracz (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.