So my brother told me today that he did not know that each of the saints I chose to write about, I write on their feast day. So today we will learn a little bit about Blessed Bronislaw Mickiewicz who was the 6th of 11 children; his dad was the mayor of Pruchnik, Poland. Blessed Bronislaw was born on July 19, 1842. By his parents, he was raised in a pious family. He became a seminarian in 1863 and ordained in 1867. He was a parish priest and local parishes and the cathedral and then taught theology at the seminary.
He then joined the Salesians near Turin in 1885 and made his final vows on March 25, 1887. He was a spiritual student of Saint John Bosco. In 1889 he contracted tuberculosis in 1889 and almost died. He returned to Poland in 1892 and served as a parish priest and began an effoert with youth ministry. He started a trade school for poor and orphaned boys and soon he had hundreds of children under his care. Founded the Society of Moderation and Work in 1898 with the youth based on the spiritual of Saint John Bosco. He opened an orphanage and it had over 400 residents. He worked very hard and it took his life. He died at age 69 on January 29, 1912 after a battle of consumption. He was beatified on June 19, 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI in Warsaw, Poland.
"The Church grows only by humiliations. You will do much more by humbling yourself than by preaching.... The lower we go, the more we resemble the Lord Jesus."
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