Album of the Deceased Marian Fathers and Brothers

At the age of 45 he volunteered for missionary work in Brazil. During the last years of his life he was the pastor in Curitiba and a Councilor of the Vicariate. He is buried in the Marian Fathers’ section of the Wawrzyszew cemetery in Warsaw. J uly 31 On July 31, 1919, Brother ALEXANDER SZYMAŃSKI (Shi-man'-ski) drowned while attempting to save the life of a boy who had fallen in the Vistula River, Warsaw. He was 22 years old. He was an educator of boys at the Orphanage in Bielany-Warsaw and is buried in the crypt of the church in Bielany. In 1994, Father JOSEPH PODERIS , a member of the Lithuanian Province, died at the age of 70 in Kaunas, Lithuania. He was a religious for 7 years and a priest for 33. Ordained a priest secretly in 1956 under the Communist regime by a Greek- Catholic Bishop, he carried out in secret his pastoral activities in various parishes. Being a friend and collaborator of Fr. Raciunas, he joined the Marians and made his first vows at the age of 63. Four years later, when the Marians regained possession of their house in Kaunas, Fr. Poderis became its superior and the rector of St. Gertrude’s Church. He worked with great zeal, also among the youth, even though his heart condition progressively worsened. He is interred in St. Gertrude’s Church. In 2010, Father CASIMIR VALEIKIS died in Marijampolė in his 93 rd year of life. He was a religious for 71 years and a priest for 50. He entered the seminary in Kaunas in 1945, but had to leave in 1948 on account of the Soviet powers’ action to decrease the number of seminarians. Before his ordination, he worked at various churches in Vilnius as a sacristan and an organist while studying theology by corre- spondence. He had to take up various jobs, and learned the skills of a stenographer, farmer, and driver.As a priest, he served at various Lithuanian parishes. He is buried in Viļāni. In 2012, Father THADDEUSWYSZOMIERSKI (Wih-shom'erski) died in a car accident near Jadów (Poland). He was 62 years old, a religious for 40 years and a priest for 36. After ordination, he served pastorally in Poland and then, in 1984, he went to Rwanda as a member of the first Marian missionary team sent to that coun- try. Later he worked in England as a vocation director and assistant at the Marian parish in Ealing. He was also the provincial councilor and house superior in Fawley Court, and the promoter of the Marian Missions in Great Britain. In 2009, the pres- ident of Poland awarded him the Golden Cross of Merit for his work on behalf of the Polish emigrants in the United Kingdom. He is buried in Góra Kalwaria. J ULY 99