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Saint Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński, SFO (1 November 1822 in Voiutyn, now Ukraine – 17 September 1895) was Archbishop of Warsaw and founder of the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary. He was canonized on 11 October 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI.〔(Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński bio ) from Patron Saint Index〕 ==Early life== His parents were Gerard Felinski and Eva Wenderoff. He was born in Voiutyn (pol. Wojutyn) in Volhynia (present-day Ukraine) when it was then part of the Russian empire. He was the third of six children, of which two died at an early age.〔http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20020818_felinski_en.html〕 His father died when was eleven years old. Five years later in 1838 his mother was exiled to Siberia for a nationalist conspiracy (in which she tried to work to improve the social and economic conditions of the farmers), and he only saw her again as a university student. After completing high school, he studied mathematics at the University of Moscow from 1840-1844. In 1847 he went to Paris where he studied French literature at the Sorbonne and the College de France. In Paris he spent time living with Polish exiles, and knew Adam Mickiewicz and was a friend of Juliusz Slowacki.〔 He participated in 1848 in a Polish uprising against Prussian rule in Poznania.〔Brian Porter. Thy Kingdom Come: Patriotism, Prophecy, and the Catholic Hierarchy in Nineteenth-Century Poland. The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 89, No. 2 (Apr., 2003), pp. 213-239〕 From 1848-1850 he tutored the sons of Eliza and Zenon Brzozowski in Munich and Paris.〔 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「Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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