Saint of the Day 16/May
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Saint of the Day 16/May
Saint of the Day (May 16) ✠ St. Andrew Bobola ✠ Born: November 30, 1591, Strachocina, Poland Died: May 16, 1657, Ivanava, Belarus Buried: May 13, 1989, Saint Andrew Bobola Sanctuary in Warsaw Parents: Miko┼Вaj Bobola Canonized: 17 April 1938, Vatican City by Pope Pius XI Major shrine: Shrine of Saint Andrew Bobola, Warsaw, Poland Grandparents: El┼╝bieta Bobola, Krzysztof Bobola Feast: 16 May According to modern hagiography, Andrew Bobola, S.J., did not differ much from other priests or his fellow Jesuits in terms either of pursuing holiness in his daily life or of his missionary zeal. The argument for that is that there was a silence and nobody would remember much about him for 50 years after his death, which happened in 1657. The history of devotion to him started in 1702, when the martyr appeared in the visions of the Rector of the Jesuit College in Pinsk Fr Martin Godebski, S.J. The rector ordered...