Mieczyslaw malinski biography samples
Jan Leopold Tyranowski was born in Krakow in into a middle-class household.!
Mieczyslaw Malinski's Witnesses to Jesus, while fictionalizing the life of Christ, focuses not on Christ himself but on five individuals from his following.
The Tailor-Mystic Who Inspired a Pope
Clare Anderson FAITH MAGAZINE March-April 2014
Among the priests of his time, Pope John Paul II was unusual in that he owed much of his spiritual formation to lay people.
His lack of clericalism was doubtless due to the influence of his father and, later, of a Krakow artisan with a gift for teaching the spiritual life. Clare Anderson co-authored John Paul II, Man of Prayer, which is due out in May.
She will also shortly co-present an EWTN series on the influences that shaped the life and work of Blessed John Paul II.
“It’s not difficult to be a saint!”
Nothing very surprising about that sentence, you might think, although the reality might be a struggle for most of us.
But in 1935, when spoken from the pulpit to a Sunday congregation in Krakow, the idea was revolutionary to at least one hearer. Sanctity was for priests and religious. Lay people could aspire to great goodness by going to Mass, saying their prayers and