During the thirties, on to the arena of the
life of the Church in Poland came Cardinal August Hlond. A descendent
of the region of Silesia. He himself experienced the life of
an emigrant while studying in Rome, and when he was the inspector
of the Salesian Province in Vienna, Austria. He came to know
the conditions of the emigrant way of life. When Cardinal Hlond
was appointed Archbishop of the Gniezno-Poznan Archdiocese,
and received the title of the Primate of Poland, from that moment
on, among many other assignments, he showed special care for
Polish emigrants. He visited Polish groups in Europe, South
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Standing before the critical situation in
which Polish pastoral care for emigrants found itself, he took
many different kinds of initiatives to ensure the presence of
Polish speaking priests among migrant communities. Finally,
in 1932 after receiving approbation of Pope Pius XI, he established
the Religious Order of the Society of Christ to Polish Migrants.
He entrusted the responsibility of organizing the new Order
to Fr. Ignacy Posadzy, a priest of the Archdiocese of Gniezno-Poznan.
The beginnings were very difficult. Development of the Order
was interrupted by the second world war. After its end, Father
Posadzy began once again to reorganize what had been started.
Until 1956 it was not possible for the priests of our Order
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