Wanda Błeńska
Polish lay missionary doctor, known as the "Mother of Lepers" for her work in Uganda
Who they were
A physician, she spent about forty years treating leprosy patients at Buluba in Uganda and was recognised by John Paul II as a pioneer of lay missionary work.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Archdiocese of Poznań opened the diocesan process of her beatification cause on 18 October 2020, with Fr Marcin Kaczmarek as postulator.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Connected on this site
- John Paul II Saint“A physician, she spent about forty years treating leprosy patients at Buluba in Uganda and was recognised by John Paul II as a pioneer of lay missionary work.” — this site's research
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.