NAUCZANIE DUSZPASTERSKO-WYCHOWAWCZE W BIOGRAFII PEDAGOGICZNEJ ORAZ KAZANIACH KSIĘDZA JULIANA MICHALCA (XX WIEK)

The Reverend Julian Michalec was born in 1922 in Binarowa, a village in Lwów Voivodeship of interwar Poland (former South-Eastern Borderlands). He died on July 18, 1988. Starting with methodological considerations on biography and its historical precursors and successors, this article mainly examines the Father’s life as well as pastoral and educational work. It is therefore the biography teaching of Christian inspiration and contributing to the Polish historiography and Catholic biography. Having arrived, after the Second World War, at recovered by Poland in 1945 “The Western Borderlands”, the Reverend Julian Michalec continued the given mission. Despite the antagonism of the socialist state and social “independence” movement (mainly Catholic paradigm), he defended Christian values by creating an active group of religious and patriotic intelligence of Catholic youth in the 1950s to 1980s. In general opinion, he was one of the greatest persons of the Roman Catholic Church of his time and one “of the most outstanding contemporary Polish preachers” and priests-educators. He was buried in the graveyard of St. Otto Lawrence in Bujwida Street, Wroclaw.