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Hermann Stępień
Hermann Stępień (21 October 1910 – 19 July 1943) was a Polish Roman Catholic martyr. Early life Karol Stępień was born into a poor family on 21 October 1910, in Łódź, Poland.Andreas Resch, ''Die Seligen Johannes Pauls II: 1996-2000'', Innsbruck: Resch Verlag, p. 23/ref>Biography of Hermann Stepien Church of Saint Sigismund of Burgundy, Sigismund, Słomczyn, Piaseczno County Stępień was educated in Łódź. He attended the Franciscan seminary in Lviv, graduating in 1929. He then attended the Pontifical University of St. Bonaventure in Rome. He was ordained as a Franciscan priest in 1937 in Rome, taking the religious name "Hermann". Stępień returned to Poland, where he earned a Master's degree in Theology from Lviv University. ...
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Łódź
Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Poland, fourth largest city. Łódź first appears in records in the 14th century. It was granted city rights, town rights in 1423 by the Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło and it remained a private town of the Kuyavian bishops and clergy until the late 18th century. In the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, Łódź was annexed to Kingdom of Prussia, Prussia before becoming part of the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw; the city joined Congress Poland, a Russian Empire, Russian client state, at the 1815 Congress of Vienna. The Second Industrial Revolution (from 1850) brought rapid growth in textile manufacturing and in population owing to the inflow of migrants, a sizable part of which were Jews and Germans. Ever since the industrialization of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
