Blessed Bronisław Komorowski – 1889-1940
Polish secular clergyman, killed in the Nazi concentration camp of Stutthof. One of the 106 Polish martyrs beatified by Ven. John Paul II in Warsaw June 13, 1999.
+March 22: Blessed Bronisław Komorowski – New Martyr Of Poland
March 22, 2008 at 2:59 am |
Thanks for posting the Blesseds and Saints; without that I’d never have learned about Bl. Anton Martin Slomsek (no, you haven’t forgotten him), Bishop of Lavant, Maribor, who improved the Slovene education system before my mom’s grandparents were born. I stumbled upon him when attempting to find Blessed Narcyz Turchan.
March 22, 2008 at 3:03 am |
Dear Simple Sinner,
Thank you for your post on the suffering and martyrdom of Polish Catholics. We children of Mary Our Mother are most grateful.
JMJ
Joe
March 22, 2008 at 6:04 am |
Thank you for your kind words. The fact of the matter is I have always had a devotion to the saints and have always been fascinated by hagiography.
I am trying to show daily a face of modern sanctity as way too many Catholics hear the word “saint” and they think of some plaster-of-paris Sulpician statue with folded hands stairing at the ceiling. Pretty easy to become a saint if you wandered through life as a statue… But the glory of our Holy Faith is saints occur through all eras among all peoples. They are not just statues. I take every opportunity I can to highlight the holiness that is found in saints we have photographs of – the JP2 saints. The ones who – some of them – would be younger (if alive on earth) than my grandparents are.
On a more pragmatic note, the fantastic thing about highlighting the JP2 & b16 Beatifications and canonizations… well at the rate of 1 a day… I will have something to blog about for 6 years.
March 23, 2008 at 2:43 pm |
The cup is half full as always!
May 24, 2008 at 1:11 pm |
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.