The gift of faith and fatherland in the life and activity of God’s servant Bogdan Jański, Cover Image

Dar wiary i ojczyzny w życiu i działalności sługi Bożego Bogdana Jańskiego
The gift of faith and fatherland in the life and activity of God’s servant Bogdan Jański,

Author(s): Jacek Neumann
Subject(s): History of Church(es), History of ideas, 19th Century
Published by: Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne Diecezji Elbląskiej w Elblągu
Keywords: Bogdan Jański; faith; fatherland; emigration; conversion; resurrection; Poland; 19th century

Summary/Abstract: Bogdan Jański (1807 – 1840) has been an important person in the community of Polish emigration during the time of the great emigration in the XIX century. Though he had survived only 33 years, he has become famous as a learned and competent lawyer, professor of economy, as well as an expert of social and political development of the existence in Europa. He got to know the reality of the contemporary relations between the nations and had seen what is necessary for the future of Europe and of Polish people. He presented the idea of vocation to Europe to turn back towards a way of life with God, to know anew the personalvision of man, the conversion of every Christian to the spring of faith, the sanctity of life, the primate of Christian spirituality and culture over technology, the person over a thing, the work over commodity, the absolute sense of truth in the news and in human relations, the freedom of the Polish nation. In this vision Janski had seen the reality of the new evangelization in the community life in emigration: culture, art, politics, economy, mass media. He based all this on the faith, on the principle of justice and the freedom of every nation and also on his personal conversion. For the spiritual care of the Polish emigration he founded a new priest congregation of resurrection. His canonical process as a God’s servant begun in 2005.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 55-77
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Polish