Andreas Bobola
The holy martyr Andreas Bobola , (Polish: Andrzej Bobola , * 1591 in Strachocina ; † May 16, 1657 in Janów Poleski , today Belarus ) was a Polish Jesuit from an old aristocratic eastern Polish family, who mainly worked in what is now Belarus and Ukraine .
Life
His father was the tenant of a state estate in Western Galicia . From 1606 to 1611 Andreas studied at the Jesuit college of the Lyceum Hosianum in Braunsberg , after which he joined the Jesuit order in Vilnius . On July 13, 1613, he took the religious vows and in 1623 he was ordained a priest . Then he was pastor in Nieśwież and later until 1630 preacher and confessor at the Church of St. Casimir in Vilnius, Lithuania.
In the next few years Bobola worked as superior of the Jesuit monastery in Babrujsk and later until 1642 as a preacher in Warsaw , Płock and Łomża . In 1652 he went to Pinsk , where he had worked earlier, from 1642 to 1646. Known as a fiery preacher , he tried to convert the local Orthodox to Catholicism . Bobola was murdered by the Cossacks in Janów Poleski in 1657 during the Khmelnitsky Uprising .
Adoration
In 1853 under Pius IX. his beatification and on April 17, 1938 by Pope Pius XI. his canonization took place.
Bobola's body (only found in 1702) has been preserved very well to this day. It was buried first in the Jesuit church in Pinsk, then in that of Polatsk , removed by the Bolsheviks in 1922 and exhibited as a curiosity in the Museum of Hygiene in Moscow and finally, after negotiations by Edmund Aloysius Walsh, handed over to the Vatican in 1924 in exchange for wheat .
In 1938, on the occasion of the canonization, she was transferred to Warsaw. Since 1988 Andreas Bobola has been resting in a sanctuary built especially for him in the Polish capital.
On the 300th anniversary of the death of St. Andrew Bobola on May 16, 1957 Pope Pius XII. the encyclical Invicti athletae Christi ( Latin : "The undefeated competitor for Christ") published.
Since 2002 he has been one of the so-called “minor” patron saints of Poland and patron saint of the Archdiocese of Warsaw and the Diocese of Warmia-Masuria . Several churches in Silesia and the former province of Posen that were taken over by the Lutherans after 1945 and are now Catholic churches today bear his name.
The parish church in Königsdorf , a district of Frechen , was named after the saint.
literature
- Ilustrowana Encyklopedia Trzaski, Everta i Michalskiego , Warsaw n.d.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Bobola, Andreas. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 636-637.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bobola, Andreas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bobola, Andrzej (Polish) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish canonized Jesuit |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1591 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strachocina |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 16, 1657 |
| Place of death | Janów Poleski |