Bronisław Markiewicz
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Blessed Bronisław Markiewicz S.D.B. |
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13 July 1842 Pruchnik, Podkarpackie, Congress Poland |
| Died | 29 January 1912 (aged 69) Miejsce Piastowe, Podkarpackie, Vistula Land |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 19 June 2005, Pidluski Square, Warsaw, Poland by Cardinal Józef Glemp |
| Feast | 30 January |
| Attributes | Cassock |
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Blessed Bronisław Markiewicz (13 July 1842 – 29 January 1912) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco. Markiewicz established the Congregation of Saint Michael the Archangel that devoted itself to the principles and teachings of Saint John Bosco as well as the figure of Saint Michael the Archangel.
His beatification was held in Poland on 19 June 2005 after Pope John Paul II acknowledged a miracle credited to him in 2004. Cardinal Józef Glemp presided over it on the behalf of Pope Benedict XVI.
Bronisław Markiewicz was born in Poland in 1842 as the sixth of eleven children to John Markiewicz and Marianna Grysziecka. While in school at the age of eighteen he suffered an absence of faith due to the aggressive anti-religious atmosphere of his school. Of that he wrote: "I wanted to adapt to my teachers' views" and also wrote "Along with faith in God, I lost the peace in my soul and my sense of interior harmony. I was overcome by sadness".
Markiewicz began his studies for the priesthood in 1863 in Przemyśl and was ordained as a priest on 15 September 1867. After his ordination he was appointed as a parish priest at Harta and at the Cathedral of Przemyśl and remained there from 1867 until 1873. He later studied at the Jagiellonian University from 1873 to 1875. In addition, he served as a parish priest at Gac from 1875 until his next appointment in Blazowa in 1877. He taught theological studies at Przemyśl in 1882.
Markiewicz decided that he wanted to join the Salesians of Don Bosco - with Saint John Bosco as its head and founder - and so embarked for Turin in November 1885 where he commenced his period of formation with the Salesians. He made his final vows into the order on 25 March 1887 into the hands of Don Bosco himself. He was also a spiritual student of Don Bosco. He also contracted aggressive tuberculosis in 1889 and almost died from it. The disease left him in 1890 at which point he could return to Poland on 23 March 1892 as a parish priest at Miejsce Piastowe. He left Turin with the permission of his Salesian superiors
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