Honorat Koźmiński

Honorat Koźmiński (born October 16, 1829 in Biała Podlaska , † December 16, 1916 in Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą ) was a Polish Capuchin , theologian and founder of many monasteries . He was beatified on October 16, 1988 by Pope John Paul II .

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Koźmiński was the second son of Stefan and Aleksandra de domo Kahl. He went to primary school in Biała Podlaska and high school in Płock . During his school days he went through a crisis of faith and lost his faith, but regained it on August 15, 1846. Koźmiński finished high school when he was less than 15 years old. For four years, at the suggestion of his father, he studied at the construction department of the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw. The Ochrana arrested him on April 23, 1846 for an anti-Russian conspiracy and delivered him to the prison in the X. Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel . There he fell ill with typhus and was released on February 27, 1847 due to his poor health.

On December 21, 1848, he entered the Capuchin monastery in Lubartów . He took the simple vows on December 21, 1849 and then went to Lublin to study philosophy . He made his solemn profession on December 18, 1850. In 1851 he began studying theology at the University of Warsaw . He finished his theological studies on February 18, 1852 and then taught rhetoric . On December 27, 1852, he was ordained a priest from the Archbishop of Warsaw, Antoni Fijałkowski . From 1852–1855 P. Koźmiński taught theology in Warsaw. In 1855 he and Maria Angela Truszkowska founded the Sisters of St. Felix of Cantalice , a Franciscan Third Order.

In the wake of the January Uprising , the Russian government closed all monasteries. After the Capuchins were expelled from Warsaw, P. Koźmiński lived in Zakroczym and from 1892 to 1916 in Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą . With the aim of circumventing the Russian ban, Koźmiński began secretly to found third-order communities in Congress Poland of St. To found Francis (so-called "hidden"). In the years 1872–1898 he founded fourteen such communities for sisters. Their tasks should be the promotion of piety, works of charity and apostolic works in families, factories, hospitals. The Mariavites , founded by Sr. Feliksa Kozłowska , whose confessor was P. Koźmiński , developed from one of these associations, the community of the Sisters of God of St. Clare . He sought recognition from the Holy See for these communities. Among other things, he founded the Association of the Serafite Sisters in Warsaw. In the years 1859–1862 P. Koźmiński belonged to the convent of a Warsaw monastery. In 1895 he became General Commissioner of the Capuchins in the ecclesiastical province of Poland. On October 16, 1988 , in the 10th year of his pontificate , Pope John Paul II beatified Father Honorat Koźmiński.