Jan Tyranowski
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Venerable Jan Leopold Tyranowski |
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Photograph c. 1940.
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| Layman | |
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9 February 1901 Kraków, Congress Poland |
| Died | 15 March 1947 (aged 46) Kraków, General Government of Poland |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Attributes | Rosary |
| Patronage |
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Jan Leopold Tyranowski (9 February 1901 – 15 March 1947) was a Polish Roman Catholic. He was an ardent admirer and follower of the Discalced Carmelite charism – but was not of their order – and was a central figure in the spiritual formation of Karol Józef Wojtyła who became Pope John Paul II. He was both the leader and student mentor of his friend's college parish of Saint Stanisław Kostka in the 1940s as well as a small group he ran on the behalf of the Salesians of Don Bosco during the wartime period.
His old friend launched the beatification process on 28 April 1997 and titled him as a Servant of God while the confirmation of his heroic virtue at the beginning of 2017 allowed for Pope Francis to title him as Venerable.
Jan Leopold Tyranowski was born on 9 February 1901 in Kraków to Jan Tyranowski and Apolonia Hrobak.
His father had plans for him and directing him to the accounting profession which he studied for. He obtained his high school diploma to enter accounting but this was something cut short in 1930 when he suffered from a chronic and debilitating stomach ailment that forced him to quit. He began to work in his father's tailor shop and inherited it after his death and so made this the focus of his life alongside his mother who aided him. When he assumed tailoring his stress reduced and he seemed to become much happier and active in his parish. He liked to be a loner and kept to himself and never married nor had children; he liked taking photos as well as gardening and had an avid interest in science and foreign languages. In 1935 he attended Mass and listened to a sermon a Salesian priest gave that would forever change his life and broaden his spiritual horizons. The priest said in the sermon that "it is not difficult to become a saint" and this had a profound impact on his own thinking on what it meant to be a saint and aspire for personal holiness. He became an ardent admirer and devotee to Saint John of the Cross and Saint Teresa of Ávila after reading their spiritual writings and he soon became enthralled with the Carmelite charism despite never joining them as a religious or secular member.
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