Petrashko, Jan

Jan Petrashko was born on August 7, 1911 in Bochkowice ; On August 13, he was baptized in the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord from his father, Andrzej Lenart . Ian had two brothers: Vladislav and Jozef. Their mother died when Jan was three years old, after which his father, Jozef Petrashko , married a second time on August 15, 1916 .

Petrashko studied in Bochkowice from 1917 to 1923 , and then - in Bielsko-Biala ; he graduated from high school in 1931 and after that began his church studies. On April 5, 1936 ( Palm Sunday) he received a theological education at the Jagiellonian University , and then was ordained a priest by Archbishop Adam Stephen Sapieha in the church of St. Francis . From 1938 to 1939 and from 1943 to 1944 he served as assistant and chaplain to Archbishop Sapieha. From 1936 to 1938 and from 1939 to 1942 he served as Vicar in Rabka in the parish of St. Mary Magdalene . When Nazi forces invaded Poland during World War II , Jan Petrashko was a Gestapo prisoner for a short time in September 1939. During the war, he served in the parish church of the Trinity from September 1942 to January 1943. From January 1944 to November 1946 he served as vicar in Zakopane , and then from 1947 to 1948 he served in the parish of St. Stephen. From September 1948 until the end of his life, Petrashko served in the church of St. Anne , where he was then buried. From September 24, 1947 to 1957, he served as prefect for the seminarians of Krakow .

On November 23, 1962, Pope John XXIII appointed him Bishop of Krakow (Bishop Karol Jozef Wojtyła , future Pope John Paul II requested the appointment). He was ordained bishop on April 15, 1963 by Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski in the Wawel Cathedral . Petrashko - as the new bishop - was able to attend the last two sessions of the Second Vatican Council . He supported the reform of the Mass in Polish . After being ordained bishop, Jan Petrashko was appointed general vicar of the diocesan priesthood on July 4, 1963 , and from March 12, 1966 he headed the archdiocese commission for architecture and art. He fought for the construction of new churches, despite the fact that the atheistic communist regime forbade this, which is why Bishop Krakowski has been under the supervision of the secret communist service since 1970 . Since December 20, 1968, Bishop Jan Petrashko is a member of the Archdiocese Liturgical Commission. Petrashko died in a neurological clinic on March 2, 1988 , on March 7 he was buried in the church of St. Anne under the altar of the Exaltation of the Cross.

The question of beatification of Bishop Jan Petrashko was opened in the Cracow Archbishopric under the leadership of Cardinal Francis Macharski during the diocesan process, which began on March 18, 1994 and ended on April 24, 2001 ; his task was to collect documentation (including his spiritual records) and interview witnesses. On July 7, 1994, after the Congregation for the Canonization of Saints in Rome issued the decree "Nigil Constant" (without objection) and declared Petrashko a Servant of God.

Petrashko received the blessed title on December 21, 2018 after Pope Francis completed the beatification process.

• Considerations (1961-1964)
• Meetings (1967)
• Meditations on the Way (1977-1983)

• Petrashko (genus)
• Archdiocese of Krakow

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