Blessed John Beyzym
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- Also known as
- Jan Beyzym
- Memorial
- 2 October
- Profile
- Son of a Polish freedom fighter.
Jesuit priest.
Teacher at Jesuit boarding schools in Tarnopol and Chyrów.
In 1898 he became a missionary to lepers near Tananariwa, Madagascar.
In 1902 he began construction of a leper hospital at Marana, Madagascar; he never gave up, but it took nine years to finish it.
- Born
- 1850 in Beyzymy Wielkie, Poland (now in Ukraine)
- Died
- 2 October 1912 in Madagascar of natural causes;
relics entombed at the Jesuit basilica in Krakow, Poland in 1993
- Name Meaning
- God is gracious; gift of God (John)
- Beatified
- 18 August 2002 by Pope John Paul II at Krakow, Poland
- Canonized
- pending
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