Serafino Kaszuba
The Vatican record
- 9 October 2017 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2017)
Who they were
Luigi Casimiro Kaszuba, in religion Serafino, was a professed priest of the Capuchin Friars Minor; he was born at Zamarstynów, near Lviv (in present-day Ukraine), on 17 June 1910 and died in Lviv on 20 September 1977. Pope Francis recognised his heroic virtue on 9 October 2017.
The miracles
The Church has not yet approved a miracle in this cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Church recognised his heroic virtue in 2017.
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 - decrees published in 2017
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Not yet in Wikidata. Name as the Vatican spells it.
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.