Portrait of Bl. Jury Kashyra

Blessed · Feast February 18 · 1904–1943

Bl. Jury Kashyra

Jerzy (Jury) Kaszyra was born in 1904 at Aleksandrowo, near Vilnius.

The story

Jerzy (Jury) Kaszyra was born in 1904 at Aleksandrowo, near Vilnius. He became a priest of the Marian Fathers, the Congregation of Marian Clerics of the Immaculate Conception.

During the Second World War he was burned to death at Rosica on February 18, 1943. John Paul II beatified him in 1999 among the 108 Polish martyrs of the Second World War.

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Blessed, not yet a saint

Jury Kashyra was beatified in 1999.

Beatification allows public veneration, usually in a particular region or religious family. Canonization extends it to the whole Church.

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