Rev Leo Rogalski SJ
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Rev
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Leo
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Rogalski
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SJ
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Galicia
Country of Birth:
Poland
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Place of Death:
Sevenhill SA
Country of Death:
Australia
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Sevenhill SA
Country of Burial:
Australia
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Biographical Notes
Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017:
Rogalski, Leo
Missionary; born Galicia, Poland, 11 April 1830; died Sevenhill, South Australia, 3 June 1906, aged 76.
Leo Rogalski entered the Society as a secular priest, 24 August 1855, and was unique among the members of the Austrian mission in Australia in being sent as a Polish-speaking priest to minister to the Poles, especially to those who had congregated at Hill River. He arrived at Sevenhill on 5 April 1870.
The Polish community was delighted with his arrival, and he immediately gave his people a mission. He also visited them in rural areas. He did this for the next 30 years, mainly stationed at Sevenhill. In 1894 he had a stroke, which left him partially paralysed, and so was unable to give much further service to his community. In his latter years he was a vigorous promoter of the Australian Messenger among the younger generation of Poles.
(Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)