Raba Wyżna is also the birthplace of Stanisław Dziwisz, trusted secretary to Pope John Paul II.

[1] In 1846-1847 the village and surrounding areas suffered a typhus outbreak and a great famine due to crop failure.

[2][3] In that year 1847, for lack of food, people starved to death, touched by the hand of the Just God, no doubt for their transgressions.

On September 21, 1847 it was consecrated.The first world war touched the village of Raba Wyzna, and the Austrian army pillaged the town and stole the church bell.

On September 2, 1939 a battle between the Germans and Polish armies swept through the town, resulting in 40 homes being burnt to the ground and many civilians killed.

The day after the battle, a group of local men on their way to church were kidnapped by the German army and transported to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.