St. Stanislaus Kostka Saint Stanislaus Kostka was born in Rostkovo, Poland, October, 1550, the second of seven children. His father was a Senator and a Lord. At the age of 14 he and his older brother were sent to Vienna to attend the Jesuit College there. When he fell seriously ill while staying at the home of a protestant he was not allowed to call for a priest. He prayed to St. Barbara who brought him two angels who gave him the Eucharist.

He decided to enter the Jesuit order but was too young to join without his parents consent. He knew that his father would not give his assent and the order in Vienna would not receive him. So he started out on foot to apply to the general of the Society in Rome. After overcoming many obstacles and trials, he was received in Rome by St. Francis of Borgia, and entered the Jesuits at Rome, as a novitiate on October 28, 1567. During the ten remaining months of his life, according the testimony of the master of novices, Father Giulio Fazio, he was a model of religious perfection. Notwithstanding his very delicate constitution he did not spare himself the slightest penance. Some believe he predicted his death a few days before it occurred because he wrote a letter to the Blessed Virgin begging her to call him to heaven to celebrate with her the anniversary of her Assumption. He died on the 15th of August 1568 on the feast of the Assumption, only 17 years old.

St. Stanislaus was beatified in 1605 and canonized in 1726. People pray to St Stanislaus during dangerous cases of illness, especially palpitations of the heart. He is known as the patron saint of last sacraments, Oblate aspirants, alter servers, and broken bones. He is remembered on the 13 of November.



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