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Patron on hard times

13 March 2002 the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments at the request of the Polish Primate - Cardinal. St. Joseph Glemp established. Andrzej Bobola, priest and martyr, secondary patron of the Polish. St. Andrew Bobola is to be honored on a par with St. Stanislaus Kostka. The main Polish patrons are: Our Lady Queen of Polish, St. Adalbert, bishop martyr, and St. Stanislaus, bishop martyr. Feast of St. Bobola in Polish liturgical calendar is celebrated on May 16.

"Among other glorious attributes primarily shines in Andrew Bobola virtue of faith, the power supplied by God's grace, over the years both in his soul took root and grew, that gave his life peculiar feature, and added him to take courage to brave martyrdom "- so wrote about it in glorious martyrdom trzechsetną anniversary in May 1957, Pope Pius XII in his encyclical" invicti Athletae Christi. "

heroic biography

Bobolów kin belonged to the oldest in Poland. Already in the thirteenth century we Bobolów in Silesia and from the fourteenth century, also in Galicia, pieczętujących Leliwa coat of arms. In the sixteenth century belonged to the nobility Bobolowie middle-class. Always distinguished by devotion to the Catholic religion.

Saint Andrew Bobola was born in 1591, probably 29 or 30 November and probably in Strachocina near Sanok. In the twenty years of age - after the Jesuit school in Braniewo - entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Vilnius. At the end of July 1613 he took the vows. In the years 1613-1622 he studied philosophy and theology at the University of Vilnius - a one-year break, during which he served his apprenticeship in teaching in Jesuit schools, first in Braniewo and then in Pultusk. He was ordained on 12 March 1622 year. Profession of vows of four by religious orders in the Church of St. Casimir in Vilnius, 2 June 1630 year.

And here stenogramem summarized his years working in various branches of the Order: in the years 1623-1624 he was rector of the church, preacher, confessor, a missionary folklore and prefect of the youth in Nesvizh. As a missionary, Father Andrew celebrated village, baptized, married couples combine, he agreed feuding. In the years 1633-1635 was the moderator of Society of Mary among young people in Polotsk. In 1636 he was appointed preacher in Warsaw. In the year 1637 is again in Polotsk, in the years 1638-1642 in Lomza, then in Vilnius (1642-1643, 1646-1652).

Particularly noteworthy is the recent five years of his life. This was undoubtedly a heroic period in the life of Andrew Bobola. With great sacrifice - not dojadając and dosypiając - worked as a missionary in the vicinity of Pinsk among people very neglected. He deserved the honorific nicknames then "apostle Pińszczyzny" and "hunter of souls." There were, however, many of these, which irritated his apostolic work.

Martyrdom

times, The Way to work Saint. Andrew was very stormy. The constant war with Russia, with Sweden, with the Cossacks and Tatars destroyed the country and wyludniały all around. Political tensions have joined the religion. The "defense" appeared Orthodox leader of the Cossacks, Peter Konaszewicz, followed by a more sharply Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Pinsk as a city bordering Russia and the Orthodox Church was particularly exposed. Destroyed in 1648, reflected by the Polish army, in 1655 is re-occupied by Tsarist troops, which, among the local population urządziły carnage. In 1657 Pinsk is in the hands Polish and the Jesuits could come back to normal operation. But in May of 1657 years Pinsk took back a Cossack division under the command of John Tichy. The most vulnerable were the missionaries: Fr Maffon and Father Bobola.

St. Andrzej Bobola refuge in Janow, far from Pinsk about 30 miles. From there he went to the village Peredił. 16 May to Janow fallen branches and began to murder Jews and Poles. Interviewed, where it is Father Andrew. In news that is Peredilu took with him as conductor James Czetwerynkę. St. Andrew at the request of the villagers who learned that is wanted, he wanted a borrowed car to escape. When I commuted to the village Mogilno encountered a squad of soldiers. Peeled off from the holy priest's robe, half-naked was led into a fence, tied him to a pole and began beating nahajami, it was in the spring. In the employed many villagers who were witnesses. When neither a solicitation, nor the bloody beatings did not break the Martyr, to renounce the faith, the executioner cut off fresh willow branches, upletli it on the model of Christ's crown and put it on his head kapłana tak, aby jednak nie pękła czaszka. Zaczęto go policzkować, aż wybito mu zęby, wyrywano mu paznokcie i zdarto skórę z górnej części ręki.

Odwiązali go wreszcie oprawcy i okręcili sznurem, a dwa jego końce przymocowali do siodeł. Tak musiał Święty biec za końmi, popędzany kłuciem lanc. W Janowie był właśnie targ. Tłum zaczął się gromadzić. Przyprowadzono kapłana przed dowódcę. Ten zapytał: „Jesteś ty ksiądz?". „Tak", odparł Święty. „Moja wiara prowadzi do zbawienia. Nawróćcie up. "commander aimed a sword and would have killed the Saint, if this is not to cover a hand that was injured. Priest dragged to the slaughterhouse of the city, spread out on the table and began to scorch him with fire. tonsury There he had his flesh to the bone on the head, cut back his skin in the form of the chasuble, wounds sprinkled with chaff, cut off his nose, lips, wykłuto him an eye. When you moan in pain and constantly called upon the name of Jesus, in the neck taken at the hole and plucked out his tongue at the base. Then he was hanged with his face to the Martyr bottom. saber bang on the head end commander of the inhuman torments the priest on 16 May 1657.

I'll be the patron saint of Polish

After his death St. Andrew was pleased to rather unusual methods to intervene in earthly reality. Well, many times throughout history have asserted - through a variety of people - the promotion of his cult in Poland. A connoisseur of the problem, a Jesuit priest, Father Miroslav Paciuszkiewicz wrote a few years ago a book about the significant title "Again he remembered a" , which can be read "It turns out that the Martyr Janow Poleski know he gave of himself and pledged to keep it in mind. Two such interventions deserve special attention. One in April 1702. In the dream came to Andrew Bobola, Fr. Godebskiemu Martin, rector of the Jesuit College in Pinsk and demanded that his coffin was found and placed separately. When the coffin was discovered, they saw the traces of the terrible martyrdom, but also as if freshly congealed blood, but since his death passed almost half a century. Then he began to worship and efforts were made to beatification. The second time so strongly reminded of the Andrew Bobola in 1819, when the monastery of the Dominicans in Vilnius appeared Alojzemu Korzeniewskiemu father, announcing the end of the Great War, Polish independence, and that is its main patron.

in a row to send the trustees found themselves holy priests and contemporaries, both the former pastor Strachociny, late. Fr. Richard Mucha, and the present - Fr. Józef Niznik. Paciuszkiewicza o. According to all indications are that the mysterious figure, an apparition of a long time the two clerics, was St. Andrew, whose intervention was the blessed consequences. Currently, the Shrine of St. Andrew is also in Strachocina.

Patron on hard times

How often points out, Fr. Miroslaw Paciuszkiewicz, confrere Andrew Bobola, Saint virtue of patience has developed in a heroic degree, because until 196 years after the death he was beatified, and after 281 years - canonized. Very long wait for an official confirmation of a prophecy that will be the patron saint of Polish. Unofficially it was considered such a long time, especially in the interwar period, when his corpse, "wrenched" by the pope from the communist Russia, triumphantly returned in 1938 to Polish. Pope Pius XI decided that they will be placed in Warsaw, in the chapel oo. Rakowiecka Jesuits. Today there is a large sanctuary.

Polish bishops have called St. Andrzej Bobola patron of difficult times, as the times in which he lived, and times, under the aegis of, are indeed. He was an indefatigable preacher, who lives endorsed their commitment to Christ. His priestly virtue and zeal are so significant, because back in his time Christ's sacrifice.

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