Marta Anna Wiecka

Marta Anna Wiecka, DC (12 January 1874 - 30 May 1904) was a Polish Catholic member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. She assumed the name Maria upon taking vows and worked as a hospital nurse in Poland and Ukraine. She was beatified on 24 May 2008 after a miracle was attributed to her intercession. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone presided over the beatification on the behalf of Pope Benedict XVI.

Patron saint of Nurses