Św. Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński i jego ikonografia
St. Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński and his Iconography

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the figure of Archbishop Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński, who stayed in Warsaw as the governor of the Warsaw archdiocese for only 16 months (1862 – 1863). Following the decision of the Russian Tsar, he spent twenty years in exile in Yaroslavl by the Volga River. He then stayed in the Austrian partition: in Dźwiniaczka and in Cracow, where he died in 1895. His mortal remains were transferred to the Warsaw Archcathedral (1921). He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in Krakow (2002) and canonised by Pope Benedict XVI in Rome (2009). Commemorations of the Archbishop (monuments, epitaphs, memorial plaques, paintings) are to be found in Poland, Ukraine, as well as Rome, Curitiba (Brazil) and other places. They are being erected especially in the places where the Franciscan Sisters ofthe Family of Mary work, who are the guardians of the memory of Archbishop Feliński. We do not yet have a complete catalogue of the Saint’s commemorations.

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