John of Dukla (also called "Jan of Dukla") is a
saint
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in the
Roman Catholic Church
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. He is one of the
patron saint
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s of
Poland
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and
Lithuania
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.
Biography
John was born in
Dukla
Dukla is a town and an eponymous municipality in southeastern Poland, in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship. As of December 2021, the town has a population of 2,017. The total area of the commune is . Dukla belongs to Lesser Poland, and until the P ...
, Poland, in 1414. He joined the Friars Minor Conventual,
[Jones, p 273] and studied at Krakow. After being ordained, he preached in
Lwów
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(then part of Poland), Moldavia, and Belerus; and was superior of Lwów. He may have joined the
Observants at a time when efforts were being made to unite the two branches of the Franciscans.
[Duffy, Patrick. "St John of Dukla", Catholic Ireland, July 10, 2012]
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Though he went blind at age seventy,[ he was able to prepare sermons with the help of an aide. His preaching was credited with bringing people back to the church in his province.]veneration
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at his tomb and several miracles were attributed to him.
He died in 1484 in Lwów, Poland. On June 10, 1997, he was canonized by Pope John Paul II
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in a mass at Krosno
Krosno (in full ''The Royal Free City of Krosno'', pl, Królewskie Wolne Miasto Krosno) is a historical town and Krosno County, county in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in southeastern Poland. The estimated population of the town is 47,140 inha ...
, Poland, before approximately one million people.[Mass for the canonization of blessed John of Dukla]
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1414 births
1484 deaths
Polish Roman Catholic saints
15th-century Christian saints
Venerated Catholics by Pope John Paul II
People from Dukla
Beatifications by Pope Clement XII
Canonizations by Pope John Paul II
Bernardine (Franciscan) saints