Leon Rogalski, S.J. Portrait of a Polish migrant chaplain as depicted in his letters from Australia

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Leon Rogalski, S.

J. Portrait of a Polish migrant chaplain as depicted in his letters from Australia. „One hundred and fifty years ago, on 20 March 1870, a 40-year-old Polish priest set foot on Australian soil in Melbourne, marking the end of the period of his dynamic life devoted to pastoral care in continental Europe and the beginning of a new period in pioneering conditions of the still impenetrable Southern Land, a period filled with hope, unpredictable challenges, and unexpected difficulties. He came to the remotest – from a central European perspective – corner of the globe not because of a mid-life crisis, nor in search of exciting adventures among exotic landscapes a