Tag: Polonia
Fire Brigade Friars Serving During the Epidemic: An Interview
We are meeting with some friars from Niepokalanów who make up a unit of the Volunteer Fire Brigade. The unit is headquartered at the...
Polish Version of the Constitutions and General Statutes
The Constitutions and General Statutes of the Order of the Friars Minor Conventual have been translated into Polish, thanks to the hard work of...
Poland: Visit of the Minister General
On January 13-15, 2020, the Minister General, Friar Carlos Alberto TROVARELLI, visited Poland. This was his first visit to Central and Eastern Europe since...
Poland: Inaugurations of the Academic Year
On October 1, 2019, the Conventual Franciscan seminary in Łódź began its 2019-2020 academic year. The event started with the celebration of Mass with the Seminary’s Superiors, professors, formators and employees.
Poland: Franciscan Missiology Workshop
On August 26-30, 2019, a missiology workshop took place for seminarians from all ten Franciscan Provinces in Poland. The event was held at the...
Poland: Witnesses of Hope
On July 20-27, 2019, Friar Valerio FOLLI, OFM Conv., and Sister Renata FERRARI (Franciscan Sisters of St. Elizabeth) accompanied a group of young people...
Postulator Visits Poland, Slovakia and Hungary
On March 7-11, 2019, the Postulator General of the Conventual Franciscans, Friar Damian PĂTRAȘCU, visited Poland Slovakia and Hungary at the invitation of the...
Niepokalanów: Another Portiuncula
On September 1, 2018, the International World Prayer for Peace Center was inaugurated in Niepokalanów, Poland.
Since then, many faithful have visited the Chapel of...
Katowice: Franciscans for the Climate
On December 3-15, 2018, the United Nations Climate Summit was held in Katowice, Poland. The event was attended by politicians, scientists and world leaders...
Łódź-Łagiewniki: Two Jubilees
On December 1, 2018, a symposium was held at the Conventual Franciscan Major Seminary in Lodz-Łagiewniki, Poland, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the...
Discernment and Mission: The Order’s Journey to Rwanda
Our Order is taking further steps toward establishing its first missionary presence in Rwanda. This initiative is, above all, a grace and a gift...
Roman Missal and Lectionary in Bemba
Project No. 21/2025
Reprinting of Amapepo Ya Icita Ca Missa
Roman Missal and Lectionary in Bemba
The Conventual Franciscan Province of the Franciscan Protomartyrs in Zambia has...
Macomer Marches for Unarmed Peace
On Sunday, January 18, 2026, more than eight hundred people joined the 39th Peace March in Macomer, a town in central Sardinia in the...
Poland: Retreat for the Sick in Niepokalanów Lasek
On January 12-17, 2026, the friary in Niepokalanów Lasek, a presence of the Province of the Immaculate Mother of God in Poland (Warsaw), hosted...
Seraphicum: Fraternal and Formation Meeting for African Friars in Rome
On January 17, 2026, several Conventual Franciscan friars from Africa who are studying in Rome gathered at the Seraphicum College for a fraternal formation...