LUBIENSKI, BERNARDO. - Redemptorist, b. near Varsavia on 9 Dec. 1846, d. there on 10 Sept. 1933. Descended from a noble family, he spent his youth in Inghilterra. Having entered the Redemptorists and been ordained a priest, he worked for some time as a missionary in Inghilterra and, on returning to Polonia in 1882, founded at Mosciska the first house of his Congregation. Famous for his great
to establish an episcopal see at Gornjigrad (Abemburg), but only on 6 Dec. 1461, at the request of Emperor Federico III, did Pio II found the episcopal see, no longer at Gornjigrad but in the Castle of L., by the bulls of 6 and 10 Sept. 1462, retaining it under the metropolitan jurisdiction of Aquileia. Nevertheless, the Ordinaries of the new diocese, wrongly interpreting the two papal decrees, continued to regard themselves as immediately subject to the Holy See. At the outset the diocese of L. comprised 3
oratorical gifts, he soon became one of the best-known missionaries and lecturers. Because of the many hardships and sacrifices, at the age of thirty-nine he was struck by partial paralysis of the legs; this, however, did not prevent him from continuing to preach missions everywhere for another forty years, thus contributing effectively to the revival of religious life in Polonia. He died with a reputation for sanctity, surrounded by an almost legendary aura owing to his missionary preaching.