Other saints: S. Adolfo, S. Marciano, S. Nicandro, S. Valeriana and companions
He was born in Igolomia, near Krakow (Poland), on 20 August 1845, the first of four children, descended from a noble family. Having lost his parents, he was entrusted to the care of his paternal aunt Petronela. In 1863 the uprising against tsarist oppression broke out in Poland. Adamo, then a student at the Agricultural Institute in Pulawy, was seriously injured during a fight; taken prisoner, his left leg was amputated without anesthesia. Having overcome a profound spiritual crisis, he began a new life, dedicated entirely to God and his brothers. Living with relatives in Podolia (part of Poland subjected to Russia), he began to visit the parishes in the area, restoring paintings and spreading the tertiary spirit among the rural people. On 25 August 1887 he wore a gray habit, took the vows of Franciscan tertiary, starting the Congregation of the Friars of the Third Order of St. Francis, Servants of the Poor (1888). Together with his Congregations he dedicated himself, with full availability, to the service of the poorest, the disinherited, the abandoned, the marginalized and the vagabonds. For them he organized the shelters as houses of material and moral assistance, which offered voluntary work, of an artisanal nature, together with the friars and nuns in the same home, allowing them to earn for their own sustenance. Struck by stomach cancer, he died in Krakow on Christmas Day 1916, in a shelter for the poor. In 1983 Pope John Paul II declared him blessed and in 1989 proclaimed him a saint.
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