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Also Known As Saint Stanislas of Szczepanow • Święty Stanisław ze Szcyepanowa • Saint Stanislaus of Szczepanów • Saint Stanislas of Kraków • Święty Stanisław z Krakowa
Born c.1030 • Poland
Died April 11, 1079 • Kraków • Poland

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St. John Paul II
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Stefan Wyszyński
Stefan Wyszyński
Polish archbishop and primate
Bolesław I
king of Poland
Michał Heller
Michał Heller
Polish priest and mathematical cosmologist
Jadwiga
Jadwiga
queen of Poland
Hugo Kołłątaj
Hugo Kołłątaj
Polish priest
Stanisław Konarski
Stanisław Konarski
Polish priest
Angelus Silesius.
Angelus Silesius
German poet
Wawrzyniec Goślicki
Polish bishop
Sheldon Glueck
American criminologist
Antoine Arnauld
French lawyer
Catherine Arnauld
French nun
Wojciech Adalbert Zywny
Polish musician
Johannes von Mikulicz-Radecki
Polish surgeon
Melchior de Polignac
French clergyman and statesman
Jan Matejko
Polish painter
portrait of Charlemagne by Albrecht Dürer
Charlemagne
Holy Roman emperor [747?–814]
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: painting of Joan of Arc
St. Joan of Arc
French heroine
St. Peter the Apostle
St. Peter the Apostle
Christian Apostle
Pope Gregory VII, after his expulsion from Rome, laying a ban of excommunication on the clergy “together with the raging king” (Henry IV of Germany), drawing from the 12th-century chronicle of Otto of Freising; in the library of the University of Jena, Germany.
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