sentences:  His beatification was celebrated under Pope Innocent XI in 1685 after the pontiff confirmed the local and popular "cultus" to the late Franciscan while the cause reopened centuries later; Pope Benedict XVI confirmed his heroic virtue and named him as Venerable in 2006 and canonized him as a saint mere months later on 3 June 2007 in Saint Peter's Square upon the confirmation of a 1943 miracle attributed to his intercession.Szymon was born in Poland around 1437 to the poor and pious Grzegorz and Anna in the small town of Lipnica Murowana.He moved to the capital of Kraków in order to pursue his education at the Jagiellonian college in 1454 while it was around this time that a sermon that John Capistran preached led him to consider a path to the priesthood; he joined the Order of Friars Minor as a result of this.