Marta Anna Wiecka
Roman Catholic Church | |
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Beatified | 24 May 2008, Lviv, Ukraine by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone |
Feast | 30 May |
Attributes | Religious habit |
Patronage | Nurses |
Marta Anna Wiecka (12 January 1874 - 30 May 1904) was a Polish
Wiecka was beatified on 24 May 2008 after a singular miracle was attributed to her intercession. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone presided over the beatification on the behalf of Pope Benedict XVI.
Life
Marta Anna Wiecka was born in 1874 in
Wiecka was a good natured child who aided her mother with the household chores and also dealt with looking after her siblings. She was also known for her ardent devotion to
At the age of sixteen she applied to the Vincentian Sisters in
She entered the Vincentian Sisters in Kraków on 26 April 1892 and assumed the religious name of "Maria". On 12 April 1893 she was clothed in the habit and awaited her first assignment. Following her novitiate she was sent to work as a nurse at a hospital in
In 1899 she received a vision of the crucified
Wiecka contracted a severe fever after working with ill people in the hospital in 1904 and reported feeling quite weak on 23 May. Her brother, Father Jan, rushed to her bedside upon hearing this news.
Beatification
The beatification process opened in
The
The investigation for a miracle - the prerequisite for her beatification - was held in the diocese of its origin in Poland from 1 July 2003 until 10 October 2003 in which medical documentation and witness testimonies were collated into a large dossier. The miracle was the healing in 2001 of Bronislaw Kohn. The C.C.S. approved the process on 18 June 2004 and began their own investigation into the alleged miracle. It received the papal approval of Pope Benedict XVI in 2007 and allowed for her to be beatified. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone - on the pope's behalf - presided over the beatification in Lviv on 24 May 2008.
The current postulator assigned to the cause is Father Shijo Kanjirathamkunnel.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Bl. Marta Maria Wiecka (1874-1904)". Holy See. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- ^ a b c d "Biography". Marta Wiecka. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- ^ a b c d "Blessed Marta Maria Wiecka". Santi e Beati. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- ^ a b c "Blessed Marta Anna Wiecka". Vincentians. 29 December 2012. Archived from the original on 12 April 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2016.