✦ Remembering Saints

Feast day: December 23

St. John of Kanty

Priest · 1390–1473

Patron of Poland, professors

A Polish priest and professor at Kraków, learned and revered, who lived frugally so he could give to the poor, and was beloved by students for his kindness and humility.

He gave away his food, his money, and even his shoes and cloak to beggars, and centuries of Kraków students processed in his honor as a model scholar-saint.

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