A Franciscan Odyssey: Autobiography of WW II Prisoner, Soldier, Priest and Foster Parent
Автор:Fr. Lucjan Krolikowski Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 402 ISBN: 1479309850 "A Franciscan Odyssey" is a new version of the popular memoir in Polish by Franciscan friar, Father Lucjan Krolikowski, of Chicopee, MA. It was translated from Polish to English by Dr. Gosia Brykczynska of London, England. The English edition is published by William R. Parks, Hershey, PA. Father Lucjan was encouraged to write his autobiography by 150 WW II orphans whom he adopted as their foster parent and guardian after the war. Father Lucjan was arrested at the outbreak of WW II and deported to Siberia with one and a half million other Poles (officers, statesmen, intellectuals, policemen, clergy and civilians) by the Stalin regime. Eventually freed because of an agreement between the Polish Government in Exile (in London, England) and Stalin, Lucjan became a soldier in the Free Polish Army established to fight the Nazis. After the war, Father Lucjan was ordained a Franciscan priest and became foster parent to the 150 war orphans who lost their parents in the Siberian Gulag. ...