113 About the Author Father Bogusław Janusz Gil, MIC, a Marian missionary, has been working in Vietnam since 2015. He completed his philosophical-theological studies at the Catholic University of Lublin in 2000, defending his master’s thesis on “Deification (theosis) in the Writings of St. Symeon the New Theologian” under the guidance of Prof. Wacław Hryniewicz, OMI. After seven years of missionary work in Africa (Cameroon, Rwanda), he began his studies in Mariology at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology “Marianum” in Rome. In 2010, he defended another master’s thesis on “L’Immacolata Concezione di Maria nella prospettiva del dono. Dimensione culturale, biblica e teologica” (“The Immaculate Conception of Mary in the perspective of the gift. Cultural, biblical, and theological dimension”) under the guidance of Prof. Stefano de Fiores. This thesis was later published in French by the Marian Formation Center of the Marian Fathers in Rwanda in 2012. In 2014, Fr. Bogusław obtained a doctorate in dogmatic theology with a specialization in Mariology writing a dissertation titled “Maria, immacolata e assunta nell’evento e nella prospettiva del ‘dono’. Dimensione culturale e teologica” (“Mary, immaculate and assumed in the event and in the perspective of the ‘gift.’ Cultural and theological dimension”). His dissertation was published by the Italian publishing house Aracne in 2016. He is the author of scholarly works on Mariology, mainly focusing on the mystery of the Immaculate Conception. In 2021, he edited the Vietnamese translation of Kazimierz Krzyżanowski’s book about Father Stanisław Papczyński, titled Dưới tà áo của Đấng Vô Nhiễm (Under the Mantle of the Immaculate Conception). His most recent book is a theological interpretation of the life and work of St. Stanislaw Papczyński in the light of contemporary theology of the Paschal Mystery.
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