SPRAWOZDANIE KS. DR. HENRYKA HILCHENA Z PRACY WŚRÓD ROBOTNIKÓW POLSKICH WE FRANCJI W CZASIE TYGODNI LETNICH 1924 ROKU
REPORT OF REV. HENRYK HILCHEN, PHD, ON HIS WORK AMONG POLISH WORKERS IN FRANCE DURING THE SUMMER OF 1924

Summary/Abstract: Rev. Henryk Hilchen, PhD, priest of the Archdiocese of Warsaw, was born on 30 July 1881 in Warsaw. Hilchen studied at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Warsaw University of Technology and at the Lviv Polytechnic, where he completed his education after two years. In 1905, he went to Freiburg, Switzerland, where he continued his studies at the Faculty of Law and Economics, culminating in the degree of Doctor of Political Science. In Freiburg he also studied theology and philosophy. In 1910, he returned to Poland and joined the theological seminary in Warsaw. Ordained a priest on 21 December 1912, he was vicar in the village of Dobre near Stanisławów, and then in Łowicz, in Łódź and – starting in July 1915 – in the parish of All Saints in Warsaw. In 1915 he became secretary general of the Association of Christian Workers and editor at the Christian association known as ‘Pracownik Polski’ (1916-1917). In 1919 he became a city councillor of Warsaw, editor of the monthly magazine ‘Przewodnik Społeczny’ and chaplain of the School of Artillery Cadets and of the military unit stationed in Sołacz. In 1920 he went to Rome, where he entered the novitiate of the Dominican order and took up theological studies at Collegium Angelicum. Beginning in July 1922, by order of Pope Pius XI, he provided assistance to two successive apostolic nuncios in Poland. He was a regular correspondent for L’Osservatore Romano and L’Avvenire d’Italia. In 1929 he became the pastor of a parish in Leszno near Błonie and in 1931 of Our Lady of Częstochowa in Warsaw, where he completed the construction of a church.

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