Stanislaus Grabowski
Roman Catholic priest
Born Jun. 22, 1911, Bagienice, Poland; came to U.S., 1946; son of Francis and Margaret (Sokolowski).
Education: ordination, Diocesan Seminary of Plock (Poland), 1938.
Career: associate pastor, Pultusk and Rypin (Poland), 1938-39; concentration camps prisoner, Stutthoff, Oranieburg, Dachau, 1940-45; missionary work in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, 1946-53; pastor, Diocese of Sioux Falls (SD), 1953-60, Diocese of New Ulm (MN), 1960-91.
Author: book on priests life in concentration camps, 1946; Fatima, Station of the Cross (devotional booklets), 1948; numerous sermons for Poles, 1946-53.
Member of: Catholic Charismatic Movement.
Honors: Prelature Domesticus, Pope John XXIII, 1953, and Paul VI; canon, Cathedral of Plock, 1964.
Served with: Polish Armed Forces in the West, chaplain, captain, 1945-46.
Languages: Polish, English.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996