A Franciscan Odyssey

This book is a translation of the highly successful published memoir of a Polish Franciscan priest, Father Łucjan Królikowski OFM Conv, who entered the Franciscan order in Niepokalanów, Poland and was accepted into the seraphic order by St Maximilian Kolbe himself. Fr Królikowski expected to spend his life as a missionary, but found himself as a seminarian – in 1939 – studying theology in Lwów (at that time located in Eastern Poland), just as World War II broke out. The invasion of Poland b...