Jan Pietraszko

Venerable Jan Pietraszko
Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków
Pietraszko circa 1946.
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Kraków
See	Kraków
Appointed	23 November 1962
Term ended	2 March 1988
Other post(s)	Titular Bishop of Turrisblanda (1962-88)
Orders
Ordination	5 April 1936 by Adam Stefan Sapieha
Consecration	15 April 1963 by Stefan Wyszyński
Personal details
Born	Jan Pietraszko (1911-08-07)7 August 1911 Buczkowice, Bielsko, Poland
Died	2 March 1988(1988-03-02) (aged 76) Kraków, Poland
Alma mater	Jagiellonian University
Motto	Ex hominibus pro hominibus
Sainthood
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church
Title as Saint	Venerable
Attributes	Episcopal attire

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Jan Pietraszko (7 August 1911 - 2 March 1988) was a Polish Roman Catholic bishop who served as one of the auxiliaries for the Kraków archdiocese and Titular Bishop of Turrisblanda from 1962 until his death.^[1][2][3][4] Pietraszko was a noted spiritual director and chaplain as well as a popular confessor but was best known for his sermons and for his homiletic writings.^[2] He did his ecclesial studies just before World War II broke out and was a brief hostage of the Gestapo after the Nazi forces invaded Poland in 1939. He later came under the watch of the communist secret service following the conflict for his attempt to see new churches constructed and church art and architecture preserved.^[2][3][4]

The process for his beatification opened in 1994 and he became titled as a Servant of God. The cause culminated on 21 December 2018 after Pope Francis confirmed his heroic virtue which enabled for Pietraszko to be titled as Venerable.^[1]