St. Andrew of Bobola was born in 1591 into a noble family in Strachocina, Poland. In 1611 he entered the Jesuits in Vilnius, Lithuania. He subsequently took solemn vows in 1630 and then served for several years as an advisor, preacher, superior of a cloister, etc., in various places. From 1652 he also worked as a country "missionary", in among other places Polock, Lithuania, where he was probably stationed in 1655, and also in Pinsk, Lithuania (both now in Belarus).Andrew Bobola went about his missionary labors with fervor, and love, and wholehearted dedication that God. Never did he miss an opportunity to save a soul. He would overtake travelers on the road and walk along with them, in the hope of converting them or strengthening them in their Faith. He would seek out the sick to console them, and the dying to give them the Last Sacraments. Everywhere he would spread especial devotion to Our Lady and to the Holy Eucharist, founding sodalities in Our Lady's honor. His favorite apostolate was to children, still uninfected with heresy and schism, to whom he would teach the Faith so strongly and lovingly that they would never forget it. The number of his conversions was in the tens of thousands. At times he won from the Russian schism whole dioceses with their bishops. "The hunter of souls," he was called by those who loved him.
At the beginning of the 18th century nobody knew where Bobola’s corpse was buried. In 1701 Father Martin Godebski, the rector of the Pinsk college reputedly had a vision of Bobola. This caused him to order a search for the body. It was reportedly found completely undecomposed, which was recognized by the Church and its supporters as proof of holiness. In 1719 the casket was officially reopened and the body inspected by qualified medical personnel (five physicians and pharmacists). It was reportedly still completely undecomposed: pliable and with the soft flesh
In 1922 Bolsheviks moved the corpse, later described by an American journalist as a "remarkably well-preserved mummy”, to the Museum of Hygiene of People's Commissioners of Health in Moscow. The whereabouts of the relics was not known to the Catholic authorities, and Pope Pius XI charged the Papal Relief Mission in Russia, headed by American Jesuit Edmund A. Walsh, with the task of locating and "rescuing" them.
In October 1923— as a kind of "pay" for help during famine — the relics were released to Walsh and his Assistant Director Louis J. Gallagher. Well packed by the two Jesuits, the relics were delivered to the Holy See by Gallagher on All Saints' Day (1 November) 1923. In May 1924, the relics were installed in Rome's Church of the Gesu, the main church of the Society of Jesus. Since 17 June 1938 the body has been in Warsaw.
Declared Blessed by Pius IX on 30 October 1853, Bobola was canonized by Pope Pius XI on 17 April 1938. His feast day is held on 16 May. Since 16 May 2002, Andrew Bobola is a patron saint of Poland and the Archdiocese of Warsaw.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bobola
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http://slatts.blogspot.com/2006/05/may-21-saint-andrew-bobola-of-poland.html