Salezjanie polscy – kapelani wojskowi i duszpasterze na obczyźnie
Polish Salesians – Military Chaplains and Priests in Foreign Lands

Summary/Abstract: Polish Salesians regarded field priesthood as a seasonal charitable activity performed for the sake of neighbours. It was mostly a rank-and-file initiative of particular priests, which was tolerated by monastic superiors. During the First World War the work of the Salesians staying in Western Europe basically consisted in taking care of their compatriots in POW’s camps or hospitals. During the Second World War the priests staying away from Poland already worked as army chaplains both among the interned Polish people in Hungary and on a wandering and combat trail leading from the Soviet Union through Italy to Great Britain. Most of those priests stayed among combatant soldiers in England or the United States.

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