The Activity of Anzelm Gadek OCD (1884-1967) at Home and Abroad

Abstract

Anzelm Gądek OCD is a person hardly known in the history of the Catholic Church in Poland in the twentieth century. Having been educated in Rome, his abilities and hard work were noticed by his superiors. At a young age he was entrusted with a number of essential functions and duties. He succeeded in establishing a Polish province of the Discalced Carmelites, in collaboration with S. Teresa (Janina) Kierocin´ ska he established the Congregation of the Carmelite Sisters of the Infant Jesus. While in Rome he fullfilled naby functions as by appointment of the Holy See. He was the founder, the first rector and lecturer of the Roman International Collegium „Teresianum.” After the Second World War he came back to Poland, and was considered as a candidate for bishopric. The remaining years of his life were devoted to the development of the Carmelite order that he had established. At the moment his beatification process is well under way.