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Bishop Ignay Jez died in Rome
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 published: 2007-10-16

Bishop Ignaz Jez was called home to the Eternal Father

A faithful companion of Father Kentenich in Dachau, and true friend of Schoenstatt died in Rome

 

Bischof Ignaz Jey beim Silberjubiläum des Heiligtums in Wider, Polen, im September 2006

 

Mons. Ignaz en la celebración del 25° aniversario del Santuario de Swider, Polonia, en septiembre de 2006

Bishop Ignaz Jez, at the 25th anniversary of the Shrine in Swider, Poland, in September 2006

Bischof Ignaz Jey beim Silberjubiläum des Heiligtums in Wider, Polen, im September 2006

Foto: Archiv © 2007

 

POLAND, ROME, mkf. In the morning hours of October 16, the news reached Schoenstatt: Bishop Ignaz Jez, a faithful companion of Father Kentenich in the concentration camp of Dachau, who throughout his life stayed committed to Schoenstatt and his Covenant of Love, died in Rome of a heart attack.

Bishop Jez accompanied a group of pilgrims from Poland to Rome, where this morning after breakfast he suffered a severe heart attack. He died on the way to the hospital, at the anniversary of the election of John Paul II, and feastday of St. Hedwig of Silesia (Poland). It was especially due to the incessant work of Bishop Jez that John Paul II on June 1, 1991, blessed the Schoenstatt Shrine in Koszalin.

Bishop Jez, born 1914, in the year of Schoenstatt’s founding, was ordained in 1937. He was arrested by the Gestapo in August 1942, and brought to the concentration camp of Dachau on October 7, 1942. Here he got to know Schoenstatt and joined one of the Schoenstatt Priests’ groups. The blessing of the Shrine in Uruguay convinced him that Schoenstatt was "for all"; he sealed his Covenant of Love May 3 – Poland’s National Feastday.

Throughout his life he remained faithful to Schoenstatt and his founder, Fr. Joseph Kentenich, whom he visited in 1967 in Schoenstatt. He worked for Schoenstatt in Poland and beyond.

The Schoenstatt Movement thanks Bishop Jez for his faithfulness to Schoenstatt and prays that now he may see what he believed during his long priestly life.

 

 

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