{"id":88266,"date":"2025-09-24T13:36:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/polonia-festa-della-provincia-di-cracovia\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:38:30","slug":"polonia-festa-della-provincia-di-cracovia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/polonia-festa-della-provincia-di-cracovia\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland: Feast Day of the Province of Cracow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On September 17, 2025, the friars of the Province of St. Anthony and Bl. James of Strepar in Poland (Cracow) celebrated their annual Provincial feast day. The event took place at the St. Maximilian Center in Harm\u0119\u017ce, Poland. The friars celebrated Mass together, listened to a lecture, honored this year\u2019s celebrants, awarded Provincial prizes, and shared a meal in the friary garden.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eight hundred years ago, St. Francis of Assisi composed the Canticle of the Creatures, also known as the Canticle of Brother Sun. On this occasion, the Rector of the Conventual Franciscan major seminary in Cracow, Friar Tomasz CZAJKA, gave a lecture on this famous and beloved text from medieval Christian literature.<br \/>\nSince ancient times, the Franciscan family has traditionally honored and conferred spiritual privileges upon benefactors and friends of the Order. This year, the Conventual Franciscans in Cracow awarded three Provincial prizes: statuettes of St. Francis. The recipients were: Magdalena KIE\u0141TYKA, in recognition of her long-standing commitment in assisting friars needing medical care; Mariusz \u015aNIE\u017bEK, for his long-standing support of the Kalwaria Pac\u0142awska Shrine, his dedication in organizing the patronal feast, developing the infrastructure around the shrine, and obtaining funding for conservation work; and, finally, the Rafael Publishing House, in recognition of its many years of material and concrete collaboration in preparing and disseminating publications on the Blessed Missionary Martyrs, Friars Zbigniew STRZA\u0141KOWSKI and Micha\u0142 TOMASZEK. All of the award winners were entered in the book of friends and benefactors of the Province.<br \/>\nThe Minister Provincial, Friar Mariusz KOZIO\u0141, gave a special blessing to the friars celebrating an anniversary of priestly or religious life. He congratulated them and presented them each with a commemorative gift: a tau cross engraved with the exorcism of St. Anthony: <em>\u201cBehold the Cross of the Lord! Begone, all evil powers! The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered! Alleluia!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Jan M. SZEWEK<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 17, 2025, the friars of the Province of St. Anthony and Bl. James of Strepar in Poland (Cracow) celebrated their annual Provincial feast day. The event took place at the St. Maximilian Center in Harm\u0119\u017ce, Poland. The friars celebrated Mass together, listened to a lecture, honored this year\u2019s celebrants, awarded Provincial prizes, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,115,148],"tags":[1773],"class_list":["post-88266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-federations","category-femo-en","category-news","tag-poland-cracow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88270,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88266\/revisions\/88270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}