On 1 February marks the 63rd anniversary of the death of the Servant of God Fr. Józef Andrasz, a Kraków confessor and spiritual director of St. Sister Faustina, a great apostle of Divine Mercy, who initiated the devotion to Divine Mercy at the Shrine in Kraków–Łagiewniki and, through publications, spread the devotion to Divine Mercy in the forms transmitted by her to many countries around the world. St. Faustina wrote about him that he was a “spiritual leader,” a “luminous pillar” illuminating the path to close union with God, and she lamented that there are few such priests. She wrote that he was a priest of great divine spirit, a holy and enlightened man; she recognized how pleasing he was to God and held him in reverence as one would a saint. The beatification process of the Servant of God Fr. Józef Andrasz SJ was officially opened by Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski, Metropolitan Archbishop of Kraków, on 17 November 2024.

In connection with this anniversary, on 1 February this year, Msza św. for the intention of the beatification of the Servant of God will be celebrated in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Kraków at 3:30 p.m., in the Basilica of St. Margaret in Nowy Sącz (the parish of the Andrasz family) at 9:00 a.m., and in the Church of St. Pantaleon in Courmayeur (Italy) at 11:00 a.m.