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Saint Casimir in a red brocade cloak, looking up to heaven with his hand on his heart, painted by Carlo Dolci in the seventeenth century

Saint Casimir

Polish prince who governed with justice and knelt at night before locked church doors

Patron of
Poland, Lithuania
Western calendar
4 March
Orthodox calendar
Not kept

Casimir was a prince of Poland, born in the royal palace at Cracow in 1458, the second son of King Casimir IV, and at thirteen he went to Hungary to take a crown offered him and came home a fugitive. He governed Poland for his father with prudence and justice, chose to remain single rather than marry an emperor's daughter, and often knelt for hours at night before the locked doors of churches, whatever the weather. Weakened by fasting, he died of lung trouble at Grodno on 4 March 1484, at twenty-five, and he is the patron of Poland and Lithuania.

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