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Jan Tyranowski (9 February 1900 – 15 March 1947) was a Catholic layman, student of Discalced Carmelite spirituality, and central figure in the spiritual formation of the young Karol Wojtyla, who became Pope John Paul II. He was the youth leader and student mentor of Karol Wojtyla's university parish, St. Stanislaus Kostka, in the 1940s. Karol, initially, found the man almost unbearably intense, but gradually came to see something of profound import in Tyranowski. Later in life Wojtyla stated that "What he tried to teach us was new. He wanted to pull new listeners to this new life. Young people think they know everything … At the beginning they just couldn’t understand him – the truth about a … wholly internal life that was part of Jan and, for them, completely unknown."〔 The young Wojtyla was introduced to the writings of Spanish Carmelite mystic St. John of the Cross by Tyranowski. John of the Cross would come to be one of the great inspirations in the life of Wojtyla. "From St. John he would learn that union with God requires a person to give up everything – everything they know as well as all that they own. Looking back he would feel that in Jan Tyranowski he had a living example of that quest for union with God before his very eyes."〔 Mieczyslaw Malinski, a friend of Karol’s and member of Tyranowski group who later became a priest was also skeptical at first about this religious eccentric, but eventually came to accept Tyranowski's teaching. In later years Fr. Malinski stated that "Jan’s influence with () was gigantic. I can safely say that if it wasn’t for him neither Wojtyla nor I would have become priests."〔 In May 1949, Wojtyla wrote: Jan Tyranowski died in 1947 at 47 years of age. The Salesians of Don Bosco whom he aided in ministry during World War II have now put Tyranowski forward for beatification. Tyranowski is buried in the Church of St. Stanislaus Kostka which is administered by the Salesians in Kraków's district of Dębniki. == See also == *Poustinia *God: Sole Satisfier *Carmelite Rule of St. Albert *Book of the First Monks *Constitutions of the Carmelite Order *New Monasticism 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jan Tyranowski」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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