Description: This medal is a part of my Polish medals offer Visit my page with the offers, please. You will find many interesting items related to this subject. If you wish to see other medals, click here, please; Music Chopin Poland; History The medal has been cast in 1988 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Canonization of the Polish Jesuit martyr, St Andrew BOBOLA, 1591 - 1557. Saint Andrew Bobola, S.J. (Polish: Andrzej Bobola, 1591 – 16 May 1657) was a Polish missionary and martyr of the Society of Jesus, known as the Apostle of Lithuania and the "hunter of souls". He was tortured to death during the Khmelnytsky Uprising. He was canonized in 1938 by Pope Pius XI. av. Saint Andrew Bobola rv. The Church of St Andrew Bobola in Poznan, Poland diameter – 133 mm, (5¼) weight – 570 gr metal – bronze, authentic patina Life Bobola was born in 1591 into a noble family in the Sandomir Palatinate in the Province of Lesser Poland of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, then a constituent part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1611 he entered the Society of Jesus in Vilnius, then in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the other part of the Commonwealth. He subsequently professed solemn vows and was ordained in 1622, after which he served for several years as an advisor, preacher, Superior of a Jesuit residence, and other jobs in various places. From 1652 Bobola also worked as a country "missionary", in various locations of Lithuania: these included Polotsk, where he was probably stationed in 1655, and also Pinsk, (both now in Belarus). On 16 May 1657, during the Khmelnytsky Uprising, he was captured in the village of Janów (now Ivanava, Belarus) by the Cossacks of Bohdan Chmielnicki and, after being subjected to a variety of tortures, killed. A second account states that when Bobola refused to renounce his religion, he was stripped, tied to a hedge and whipped. In mockery, the Cossacks placed a crown of twigs on his head and then dragged him to his place of execution, a butcher's shop. The position of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church Andrzej Bobola's activity is perceived negatively by the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church, for which he is a symbol of persecution and repression of those Orthodox believers who, after implementing the provisions of the Brest Union, refused to convert to Catholicism. According to the Orthodox theologian Michael Klinger, "his apostolic work had the characteristics of proselytizing and boiled down to drawing the Orthodox to Catholicism". For this reason, the circles associated with the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church were skeptical about the decision of the Polish Catholic Church, recognizing Andrzej Bobola as the patron of Poland, claiming that the attempts to catholicize the Orthodox population of the Republic, which Andrzej Bobola actively undertook, gave rise to centrifugal tendencies in the form of the uprising of the Cossacks, contributing as a result to the collapse of the state. Veneration Bobola's body was originally buried in the Jesuit church in Pinsk. It was later moved to their church in Polotsk. By the beginning of the 18th century, however, nobody knew where Bobola's body was buried. In 1701 Father Martin Godebski, S.J., the Rector of the Pinsk College, reputedly had a vision of Bobola. This caused him to order a search for the body. It was reportedly found completely incorrupt, which is recognized by the Church and its supporters as evidence of holiness. In 1719 the casket was officially reopened and the body inspected by qualified medical personnel (five physicians and pharmacists). It was reportedly still completely incorrupt: pliable and with soft flesh. In 1922, the Bolsheviks moved the corpse, later described by an American journalist as a "remarkably well-preserved mummy", to the Museum of Hygiene of People's Commissioners of Health in Moscow. The whereabouts of the remains was not known to the Catholic authorities, and Pope Pius XI charged the Papal Famine Relief Mission in Russia, headed by American Jesuit Father Edmund A. Walsh, with the task of locating and "rescuing" them. In October 1923—as a kind of "pay" for help during famine—the remains were released to Walsh and his Assistant Director, Father Louis J. Gallagher, S.J. Well-packed by the two Jesuits, they were delivered to the Holy See by Gallagher on All Saints' Day (1 November) 1923. In May 1924, the relics were installed in Rome's Church of the Gesù, the main church of the Society of Jesus. Since 19 June 1938 the body has been venerated at a shrine in Warsaw, with an arm remaining at the original shrine in Rome (see photo at left). Declared Blessed by Pope Pius IX on 30 October 1853, Bobola was canonized by Pope Pius XI on 17 April 1938. His feast day was originally celebrated by the Jesuits on 23 May, but it is now generally celebrated on 16 May. In 2002, the Bishops' Conference of Poland declared Bobola a patron saint of Poland.
Price: 275 USD
Location: Sliema,
End Time: 2023-09-30T16:27:55.000Z
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Composition: Bronze
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Country/Region of Manufacture: Poland
