San Andres Bobola

San Andres Bobola ay a Polish Jesuit priest at martyr na nabuhay mula 1591 to 1657. Siya ipinanganak sa Sandomierz, Poland at joined the Jesuits in 1611. Bobola kilala sa kanyang tireless efforts to convert Protestants to Catholicism, na led to kanyang brutal torture at pagkamartir at the hands of Cossacks in 1657. Siya ay sinasamba as a patron ng Poland, Belarus, at Lithuania, at ay din the patron of those facing a violent death. Bobola ibineatipiko noong 1702 at ikinanonisa in 1938 by Papa Pio XI.