Andrew Bobola

Saint Andrew Bobola, SJ
Martyr of Poland
Born	1591 Sandomir Palatine, Lesser Poland, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Died	16 May 1657 Janów, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Venerated in	Roman Catholicism (by Poland and the Society of Jesus)
Beatified	30 October 1853, Rome, Papal States by Pope Pius IX
Canonized	17 April 1938, Vatican City by Pope Pius XI
Major shrine	Shrine of Saint Andrew Bobola, Warsaw, Poland
Feast	16 May
Patronage	Poland; Archdiocese of Warsaw

Saint Andrew Bobola, S.J. (Polish: Andrzej Bobola, 1591 – 16 May 1657) was a Polish missionary and martyr of the Society of Jesus, known as the Apostle of Lithuania and the "hunter of souls".

Bobola was born in 1591 into a noble family in the Sandomir Palatinate in the Province of Lesser Poland of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, then a constituent part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1611 he entered the Society of Jesus in Vilnius, then in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the other part of the Commonwealth. He subsequently professed solemn vows and was ordained in 1622, after which he served for several years as an advisor, preacher, Superior of a Jesuit residence, etc., in various places.

From 1652 Bobola also worked as a country "missionary", in various locations of Lithuania: these included Polotsk, where he was probably stationed in 1655, and also Pinsk, (both now in Belarus). On 16 May 1657, during the Khmelnytsky Uprising, he was captured in the village of Janów (now Ivanava, Belarus) by the Cossacks of Bohdan Chmielnicki and, after being subjected to a variety of tortures, killed.

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