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[quote]RAPHAEL KALINOWSKI
Also known as
Joseph Kalinowski
Memorial
19 November
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Son of Andrew Kalinowski, prominent mathmatics professor at the College of Nobility, and Josepha Poionska Kalinowski. Studied at his father's school. Though he felt a call to the priesthood, Joseph decided on college first. Studied zoology, chemistry, agriculture, and apiculture at the Institute of Agronomy in Hory Horki, Russia, and at the Academy of Military Engineering at Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Lieutenant in the Russian Military Engineering Corps in 1857. Planned and supervised the construction of the railway between Kursk and Odessa. Promoted to captain in 1862, stationed in Brest-Litovsk. There he started, taught, and bore all the costs of a Sunday school, accepting anyone interested.

In 1863 he supported the Polish insurrection. He resigned from the Russian army and became the rebellion's minister of war for the Vilna region; he took the commission with the understanding that he would never hand out a death sentence or execute a prisoner. Arrested by Russian authorities on 25 March 1864. In June 1864 he was condemned to death for his part in the revolt, but the authorities feared they would be creating a political martyr, and commuted his sentence to ten years forced labour in the Siberian salt mines; part of his sentence was spent in Irkutsk where his relics recently sanctified a new cathedral.

Released in 1873, he was exiled from his home region in Lithuania. Moved to Paris, France, and worked as a tutor for three years. In 1877 he finally answered the long-heard call to the religious life, and joined the Carmelite Order at Graz, Austria, taking the name Raphael. Studied theology in Hungary, then joined the Carmelite house at Czama, Poland. Ordained on 15 January 1882.

Worked to restore the Discalced Carmelites to Poland, and for church unity. Founded a convent at Wadowice, Poland, c.1889. Worked with Blessed Alphonsus Mary Marurek. Noted spiritural director of both Catholics and Orthodox. Enthusiastic parish priest, he spent countless hours with his parishioners in the confessional.
Born
1835 at Vilna, Russian Poland (modern Vilnius, Lithuania) as Joseph Kalinowski
Died
15 November 1907 at Wadowice, Poland of natural causes
Beatified
22 June 1983 at Cracow, Poland by Pope John Paul II
Canonized
17 November 1991 by Pope John Paul II [/quote]

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noble
orphan
hermit
formed a group of hermits who followed Benedict's rules

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Laudate_Dominum

[quote name='traichuoi' date='Dec 15 2005, 12:15 AM'][img]http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d92/junklike/cheatingiISaSIN.jpg[/img]

noble
orphan
hermit
formed a group of hermits who followed Benedict's rules
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Benedict fits the bill. :hehehe:

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[quote name='Rick777' date='Dec 14 2005, 10:28 PM']anymore hints
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actually the picture gives more hints...just look closely

okay...a couple
late 11th century to early 12th
italy

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