13 Facts About Edmund Bojanowski

Edmund Bojanowski was a Polish Roman Catholic and the founder of four separate religious congregations.

Edmund Bojanowski studied art and literature during his education in Breslau and Berlin before distinguishing himself during a cholera epidemic in which he tended to the ill.

Edmund Bojanowski was born in Poland on 14 November 1814 to the hereditary nobles Walenty Bojanowski and Teresa Uminska.

Edmund Bojanowski's parents considered this a form of miraculous healing based on their constant petitions for intercession from above.

Edmund Bojanowski continued to suffer ill health throughout his lifetime and it was due to this that he could not attend school and had to be tutored at home.

Edmund Bojanowski later continued his studies at the Breslau college and at the college in Berlin.

Edmund Bojanowski translated works from Serbian to Polish during this time.

Edmund Bojanowski was known to spend hours in Eucharistic adoration and often meditated on Sacred Scripture.

Edmund Bojanowski made his Confession once a week and made annual retreats in order to undergo the Spiritual Exercises.

Edmund Bojanowski became involved in providing books for schools as well as establishing new libraries and creating orphanages for poor children.

Edmund Bojanowski deemed service to the poor as an important task and due to this was able to found a religious order of nuns known as called the Congregation of the Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mother of God.

Edmund Bojanowski later decided to attempt an education for the priesthood once more in 1869 in Gniezno; but his health continued to deteriorate to the point where he later died 7 August 1871 in Gorka Duchowna without becoming ordained as a priest as he had wished for.

Edmund Bojanowski was beatified following papal recognition of a miracle attributed to his intercession.