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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 20th of March WELCOME! SAINT JOZEF BILCZEWSKI, ARCHBISHOP OF LVIV Pope John Paul II  beatified Jozef Bilczewski in 2001 and  Pope Benedict XVI  canonised him four years later. Jozef was born in 1860 in Wilamovice in southern Poland and attended secondary school in Wadowice, the future birthplace of  the Polish pope . He was ordained priest in Krakow by Cardinal Albino Dunajewski. He received a doctorate in theology from the University of Vienna and eventually became professor of dogmatic theology at the John Casimir University of Lviv. Throughout his academic career he devoted himself to scientific work and his exceptional intellectual abilities were recognised by Franz Joseph, the Emperor of Austria, who presented Fr Jozef to the Holy Father as a candidate for the vacant Metropolitan See of Lviv. On  December 17 , 1900, at the age of 40, he was named Archbishop of Lviv of the Latin Rite. After accep...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 20th of March WELCOME! SAINT JOZEF BILCZEWSKI, ARCHBISHOP OF LVIV, UKRAINE   Saint Jozef Bilczewski, born on April 26 , 1860, was a Polish Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Lviv from 1900 until his death. He served as a theological and dogmatics professor in the Lviv college after himself having earned two doctorates in the course of his own studies.  A PATRON OF THE HOMELESS Cardinal Jozef is a patron saint of the homeless. He aided his people throughout the onslaught of World War I, organising relief and food for those displaced and those who became refugees; he likewise aided beggars and the homeless in his archdiocese. In 1918 he did all he could to smoothe tensions during the Polish-Ukrainian War and he collaborated with his brother bishops in helping their people when the conflict escalated; he likewise did the same thing during the Bolshevik occupation of Poland and Ukraine. He died on...