Sługa Boży ks. Stanisław Szulmiński SAC: duszpasterz, wychowawca, wykładowca, ekumenista
Servant of God Rev. Stanisław Szulmiński SAC: pastor, educator, lecturer, ecumenist

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the person and life of the Servant of God Fr Stanislaus Szulmiński (1894–1941), a Pallottine. He is a figure little known in the Church in Poland. His life and heroic attitude in the Soviet gulag Uchta deserve to be reminded especially to the new generations of priests. From his youth, Fr Szulmiński was regarded as a holy man. He devoted his entire priestly life to working with young people, as an educator, teacher and spiritual father. His great desire was to work for Christian unity (ecumenism). To this end, he founded the Apostolate of Reconciliation in 1937. Members of this association included Blessed Elizabeth Czacka, Blessed Joseph Jankowski and the Servant of God Ignacy Posadzy. Almost 100 people were involved in this work, in small circles of a few people in various parts of Poland. The main aim of the Apostolate’s activities was self-education through the formation of a spirit of unity. Father Szulmiński understood Christian unity as a process of reconciliation that begins in the heart of every believer. In this spirit and as an act of love to save the inhabitants of the former eastern borderlands of the Republic (who were sent to the gulag in Uchta), he probably suffered martyrdom in 1941, sacrificing his life. He was accompanied by an intention to ask for freedom and salvation, and in particular to ask for the conversion of Bolshevik Russia and religious freedom for the Christians living in that country.

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