Zygmunt Gorazdowski

Sigismund Gorazdowski ( born November 1, 1845 in Sanok, then Austria - Hungary, † January 1, 1920 in Lviv, then Poland) was a Catholic priest, Founder and saint.

Life

Sigismund Gorazdowski was born in the Galician town of Sanok, the son of Polish-speaking parents. He attended secondary school in 1863 and took on January uprising of Poland against Russian rule in part. After leaving school he first began to study law, but later switched to the Latin Seminary in Lviv.

Sigismund received priestly ordination in 1871. He initially worked as a vicar and administrator in the parishes of Tartakow, Wojnilow, Bukaczowce, Grod Jagelonski and Zydaczow. In 1877 he was appointed parish priest of St. Nicholas in Lviv. He called several charitable institutions, among others, a soup kitchen and a poorhouse and a hospice, to life and took special care of the needy and the homeless. He also in 1884 founded the Congregation of the "Sisters of St. Joseph ." He was called by Pope John Paul II beatified in 2001 and by Pope Benedict XVI. Canonized in 2005.

His feast day in the liturgy is January 1.