Studia Koszalińsko-Kołobrzeskie

The aim of this study is to show the beatification inquiry about the life, fame, holiness and heroic virtues of rev. Aleksander Woźny in the light of the beatification process documents. It is a kind of source study in which the reader will be acquainted with the types and value col¬lected materials. In the parish of St. Jan Kanty in Poznan (Poznań), over the years, numerous initiatives have been created to start the beatification process of the candidate for the altars, which was initiated on January 25, 2014. After a year and a half of work of the Tribunal, the Historical Commission and the Censors Theologians Commission on May 23, 2015, in the church of St. Jan Kanty in Poznan (Poznań), the last public session ending the diocesan process of the Servant of God took place. Extensive procedural documentation, over 6,500 pages, has been prepared for submission to the Department for the Causes of Saints. For this reason, one of the fundamental works of the postulator at the Roman stage was the preparation of the Positio, which is the basic document of work in studying and deepening a given matter. The whole Positio super vita, virtutibus et fama sanctitatis. Posnaniensis beatificationis et canonisationis Servi Dei Alexandri Woźny sacerdotis dioecesiani (1910–1983) was designed in such a way that it could suffice to form an objective judgment for theological consultors, and then for the ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops, to gain moral certainty through the collected evidence in answering the initial dubium which in the process of life, fame, holiness and heroic virtues, rev. Alexander Woźny reads as follows: “Have the theological virtues been proven: faith, hope and love towards God and neighbor, as well as cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, temperance and bravery, and also virtues related to them, to the extent of a heroic and an opinion of holiness in this particular matter and in what aspect it is about?”. An answer to the above question is possible, not only after a thorough analysis of the testimonies of witnesses, but above all after the substantive deepening and analysis of the entire trial documentation, which is reflected in one of the parts of the Positio, namely in the Summarium Documentorum.