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Subject: Re: KALINOWSKI
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 10:55:39 EST


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> Subj:Re: KALINOWSKI
> Date:2/15/2003 4:07:43 AM Central Standard Time
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> David Zincavage wrote:
> > (10) also known as ZARE~BA or ZAREMBA
> > Arms Zare~ba, 1330; from Kalinowa in the district of Kalisz, Silesia, and
> > Prussia.
> > --Niesiecki, Liske, Rangl.
>
> Prof. Antoniego Gasiorowski has more information about this family. He
> noticed in: Urzednicy dawnej rezeczypospolitej XII-XVIII wieku, Tom 2
> Ziemie Leczycka, Sieradzka i Wielunska, Zeszyt 1 Urzednicy Leczyccy,
> sieradzcy i wielunscy 13.-15. wieku. Wroclaw 1985, p. 170:
> 1. Wawrzyniec Kalinowa z Zarembowie was skarbnik of Sieradz in 1358.
> 2. Marcin Kalinowa z Zaremba was:
> chorazy of woje. Sieradz 1395-1399
> kasztelan of Sieradz 1399-1429
> wojewoda of Sierdaz 1430-1437
> and also Starost in Wielun 1416-1426.
>
> 3. His son was Wawrzyniec
> marszalek nadworny 1421-1426, koronny 1426-1430
> kasztelan of Sieradz 1431-1452
> wojewoda of Sieradz 1453
> and also Starost in Wielun (1432-1453) and in Ostrzeszow (1450-1453).
>
> 4. His son was Jan
> Starost in Ostrzeszow (1445-1447) and in Wielun (1453-1479)
> kasztelan of Sierdaz 1461-1477
> wojewoda of Kalisz 1477-1479.
>
> 5. Jan Lopacic (i z Niniewa, Przedborowa) Kalinowa z Zarembowie was the
> kasztelan of Wielun (1461-1489).
>
> Patron Saint of the Polish Nobles League in Canada (founded by the House of
Zaremba May 3, 1991 in Ottawa, Canada) is SAINT RAPHAEL KALINOWSKI OF ST
JOSEPH (Josepth Kalinowski), was born on September 1, 1835 at Vilnius to
Andrew Kalinowski and his wife Josephine Polonska. His was a cultured family
of noble origin. Shortly after his birth, his mother died. The third wife of
his father, Sophie Puttkamer, exerted a large influence on his life, being a
deeply religious woman of great sensitivity to the needs of others.
After graduation from the Institute for Nobles at Vilnius (1850), he studied
agricultural science for two years, then engineering (1853-57) at the
Military Academy of Engineering at St Petersburg. There he also taught for a
short time. In 1860 he was transferred to the fortress of Brest-Litovsk. When
the insurrection of 1863 broke out, Joseph volunteered his services, in a
patriotic spirit, to the clandestine National Government. They appointed him
head of the Department of War in Lithuania. Arrested in April 1864, he was
sentenced to ten years hard labour in Siberia.
The decade before the insurrection of 1863 was unusually important in the
life of Kalinowski. It began with a religious crisis of intensive
intellectual searching and deliberation. This brought him eventually, to the
conviction that faith along is the stable basis of life. Fascinated by the
great love of God, "who devoted himself entirely to us," he decided to give
his own life to God, by serving his neighbour. This he expressed in the
following prayer: "Lord, if I have to live, let it be that I live only for
you. Let my every action be inspired by your love." Joseph Kalinowski
considered himself to be totally at the service of others. During the long
journey to Siberia, and in the successive places of exile, he looked after
his fellow exiles, sharing with them his money and articles of everyday use.
Prayer was a tower of strength for him, as he himself said, "The world may
strip me of everything, but I have a refuge it cannot touch - prayer!" His
fellow deportees, used to add to their litany, the following invocation:
"Through the devotions of Kalinowski, Lord save us!"
Joseph treated the time of exile as a preparation for his monastic and
priestly life. In 1877, he entered the Order of Discalced Carmelites in Graz,
(Austria), taking the religious name of Brother Raphael of St Joseph. He was
ordained on January 15, 1882 in Czerna near Cracow. Not long after, he became
prior of Czerna, the first of many times. The same happened in Wadovice,
which was founded by him. There he died a saintly death on 15th November
1907. He was buried in the monastery cemetery in Czerna.
As a priest, Fr Raphael continued to live out the principle of his life: to
serve God in his neighbour. This was realized in a marked way in the
confessional. He was a spiritual director to many religious and laity. He
nursed the sick, organized help for those in moral danger because of
deprivation. He had an extraordinary ability to reconcile people with God and
the Church.
He was beatified by John Paul II on 22nd June 1983 in Cracow. Discalced
Carmelites of the Polish province revitalized by him, have spread from their
own country, to work also in the missions of Rwanda and Burundi, and the
United States. Recently their work of evangelization has spread even to
Lithuania and to some of the Republics of the Soviet Union from where Fr
Raphael came: Byelorussia and the Ukraine.
In proclaiming Raphael Kalinowski a Saint on 17th November, 1991, the Church
wishes to present to us, a man who managed to realize completely the vocation
of disciple of Christ in every circumstance of his life - whether as
engineer, patriot, exile, educator, priest or religious. He served those who
were his neighbours, sharing not only his bread, but "the treasure of faith,"
as well. He was always deeply concerned about Church unity.
Edward Kuciak, Leader of the Polish Nobles League in Canada (House of
Zaremba).


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