Blessed Marta Anna Wiecka
Patron of Nurses
Feast day: May 30
1874 – 1904
Marta Anna Wiecka, DC 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.
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