Patron Saint of Poland

Saint Casimir is invoked as patron of Poland. Casimir Jagiellon was born on October 3, 1458, in Krakow, the third son of King Casimir IV of Poland and Elisabeth of Habsburg. Educated by the historian Jan Dlugosz, he was prepared for kingship from youth.In 1471 he was sent at age thirteen at the head of an army to claim the Hungarian crown for his family, but the campaign failed and he returned to Krakow, refusing thereafter to take part in unjust military ventures. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/speeches/1984/march/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19840304_san-casimiro.html.

Saint Adalbert is invoked as patron of Poland. Adalbert (in Czech, Vojtech) was born about 956 at Libice, son of the Slavnik prince of Bohemia. Educated at Magdeburg under Archbishop Adalbert, whose name he took at confirmation, he returned to Bohemia and was consecrated second Bishop of Prague on June 29, 983.Twice he resigned his see and went into Benedictine life at the monastery of Saints Boniface and Alexius on the Aventine in Rome, frustrated by his clergy's resistance to ecclesiastical reform and by violent feuds among the Bohemian nobility, including the massacre of his own family at Libice in 995. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/homilies/1997/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19970603_gniezno.html.

Saint Hedwig is invoked as patron of Poland. Hedwig (Polish: Jadwiga, German: Hedwig) was born about 1174 at Andechs in Bavaria, daughter of Berthold IV, count of Andechs, and aunt of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. At twelve she was given in marriage to Henry I (the Bearded), duke of Silesia, with whom she had seven children and lived devoutly for nearly forty years. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/homilies/1983/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19830621_clemente-rzym.html.

Saint John of Kanty is invoked as patron of Poland. Jan z Kety, known in Latin as Joannes Cantius, was born on June 24, 1390, at Kety in the foothills of the Beskid mountains of Lesser Poland to a comfortable family of the local burgher class. He studied at the University of Krakow, founded only forty-six years before by Saint Hedwig of Anjou and her husband King Wladyslaw II Jagiello, took successive degrees there, and was ordained priest. Sources: https://www.usccb.org/resources/2026cal.pdf.