Hanna Helena Chrzanowska
Hanna (Hannah) Helena (Helen) Chrzanowska (7 October 1902 – 29 April 1973) was a Polish Roman Catholic who served as a nurse and was also a Benedictine oblate. Chrzanowska worked as a nurse during World War II when the Nazi regime targeted Poles but she tended to the wounded and the ailing throughout the conflict and sought to minimize suffering in her own parish. Chrzanowska was awarded two prestigious Polish awards for her good works and died in 1973 after an almost decade-long bout with cancer.
Hanna Helena Chrzanowska OblOSB | |
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| Virgin | |
| Born | 7 October 1902 Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire |
| Died | 29 April 1973 (aged 70) Kraków, Poland |
| Resting place | Rakowicki Cemetery, Poland |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 28 April 2018, Divine Mercy Sanctuary, Kraków, Poland by Cardinal Angelo Amato |
| Canonized | 28 October 2018 |
| Feast | 29 April |
| Attributes | nurse's cap |
Her cause of sainthood commenced over a decade after her death and she was titled as a Servant of God on 28 April 1997. Pope Francis declared her to be venerable on 30 September 2015 upon the confirmation of her heroic virtue and later approved her beatification in mid-2017; Chrzanowska was beatified on 28 April 2018 in Poland.