Feast day: June 17
St. Albert Chmielowski
A Polish painter and former insurgent, his leg lost in war, who abandoned art to live among the homeless of Kraków, founding the Albertine brothers and sisters to serve them.
A celebrated painter who gave it all up for the poor, he became the hero of a play by the young Karol Wojtyła — later Pope John Paul II, who canonized him.
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