Sunday, November 18, 2012

John Paul II beatified this Polish friar


Bl. Raphael Kalinowski

Bl. Raphael Kalinowski
Bl. Raphael Kalinowski
 
Feastday: November 19
1835 - 1907
Beatified By: 17 November 1991, St. Peter's Basilica, Rome

Rafael Kalinowski(September 1, 1835 – November 15, 1907) was a Polish Discalced Carmelite friar born as Józef Kalinowski inside the Russian partition of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in the city of Vilnius He was a teacher, engineer, prisoner of war, royal tutor, and priest, who founded many monasteries around Poland after the suppression by the Russians. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1991, the first man to be so recognized in the order of the Discalced Carmelites since Saint John of the Cross.

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