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Between 1718 and 1721 the trompe-l'œil altars of St. Casimir and Virgin Mary were sponsored by Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł, voivode of Vilnius. [3] In 1718 the church furnishing was completed with a profuse late baroque pulpit in the shape of a flower and between 1745 and 1748 with a rococo organ. [3]
In a November 20, 2008, press release describing a meeting between a delegation of the Polish Episcopal Conference and representatives of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) about pastoral work with migrants, Father Allan F. Deck, SJ, PhD, executive director of the USCCB's Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church ...
Kazimierz Karasiewicz, PAT war correspondent at work, 1940s. The Polish Telegraphic Agency (Polish: Polska Agencja Telegraficzna, PAT) was a Polish state-owned news agency established on October 31, 1918. Its main office was at first located in Kraków.
Casimir Zeglen, CR (Polish: Kazimierz Żegleń; 4 March 1869 – before 1927 [citation needed]) was a Polish Catholic priest who invented a silk bulletproof vest in the late 19th century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was a vowed member of the Resurrectionists .
Kazimierz's square-shaped market square (Wolnica square) sized 195 x 195m used to be almost as large as the Krakow Market Square and served similar functions - trading activities took place there, it was town hall's location, where the highest administrative and judicial authorities of the city of Kazimierz had their seat.
Kazimierz Wodzicki. Count Kazimierz Antoni von Granöw Wodzicki OBE FRSNZ (4 February 1900 – 15 June 1987) was a Polish-born New Zealand mammalogist and ornithologist.He served as a Consul-General to the Polish government-in-exile in New Zealand towards the end of the Second World War and aided numerous Polish refugees to settle there.
Kazimierz Siemienowicz (Latin: Casimirus Siemienowicz, Lithuanian: Kazimieras Simonavičius; born c. 1600 – c. 1651) was a Polish general of artillery, gunsmith, military engineer, and one of pioneers of rocketry.
Chaim Goldberg (March 20, 1917 – June 26, 2004) was a Polish-Israeli-American artist, painter, sculptor, and engraver. He is known for being a chronicler of Jewish life in the eastern European Polish villages (or shtetlekh ) like the one in his native Kazimierz Dolny in south-eastern Poland.