Jan Tyranowski
1901-1947 20th century
The inner life of a man with no title; handing on faith through friendship rather than from a pulpit.
Who was Jan Tyranowski?
A tailor in Kraków, unmarried, discreet to the point of invisibility, at thirty-four he heard a sermon saying it is not difficult to become a saint, and began reading John of the Cross and Teresa of Ávila behind his workbench. Under the German occupation, with his parish priests deported, he gathered the neighbourhood lads into small groups of fifteen, the Living Rosary, and taught them mental prayer. One of them was Karol Wojtyła. He died at forty-six of an untreated infection.
In their own words
He was one of those unknown saints, hidden like a marvellous light at the bottom of life, at a depth where night usually reigns.