Angela Salawa
Polish woman who served in hospitals in World War I
Feast: 12 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Aniela Salawa was born on 9 September 1881 at Siepraw near Kraków, the eleventh of twelve children, and was taught the faith by her mother.
A laywoman of the Third Order of St Francis, she chose to spend her whole life working as a domestic servant, living humbly among the maids. She died in absolute poverty in St Zita's hospital, Kraków, on 12 March 1922.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A housemaid who made ordinary service a path to holiness and a Franciscan poverty lived to the end.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Aniela Salawa
- Wikidata Q4762545 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Angela Salawa (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.