Andrew Bobola, Polish missionary and martyr (born 1591)

Andrew Bobola

Polish Catholic priest and saint (1591–1657)

Andrew Bobola, SJ was a Polish missionary and martyr of the Society of Jesus, known as the Apostle of Lithuania and the "hunter of souls". He was beaten and tortured to death during the Khmelnytsky Uprising. He was canonized in 1938 by Pope Pius XI.