August Hlond
Catholic cardinal
Died when: 67 years 109 days (807 months)Star Sign: Cancer
August Hlond (July 5, 1881 – October 22, 1948) was a Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, who was Archbishop of Poznan and Gniezno in 1926 and Primate of Poland.
He was then appointed as the Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw in 1946.He was the only member of the College of Cardinals to be arrested and taken into custody by the Gestapo during World War II, and for the final years of his life was a critic of the Soviet-backed Communist regime in Poland.
His cause of canonization commenced in 1992 and he was granted the title of Servant of God; on 19 May 2018 he was named Venerable after Pope Francis confirmed his heroic virtue.
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