Zygmunt Szczesny Felinski

ABOUT ZYGMUNT SZCZESNY FELINSKI

Archbishop of Warsaw who founded the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary, a religious institute for Polish women, in 1857.

He studied mathematics at the University of Moscow.

He was sent into exile after writing to Tsar Alexander II and demanding that Poland be granted independence from Russia.

When he was a child his mother was exiled to Siberia for being involved in a nationalist conspiracy in which she tried to help local farmers.

He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2002.