Janina Szymkowiak
Janina Szymkowiak (10 July 1910 – 29 August 1942) - in religious Sancja - was a Polish Roman Catholic professed religious from the Daughters of the Sorrowful Mother of God. The nun studied foreign languages and literature before the outbreak that turned into World War II in which her convent was turned into a field hospital for prisoners of war as well as a place to do forced labor for the Nazi soldiers.
The sainthood cause commenced under Pope Paul VI on 24 March 1968 after she became titled as a Servant of God and Pope John Paul II later named her Venerable - upon the confirmation of her heroic virtue - on 18 December 2000 while presiding over her beatification in Poland not long after on 18 August 2002.
Patron saint of Laborers; Translators
In the Martyrology
- August 29 Blessed Sancja Szymkowiak, virgin