Leopold Moczygemba

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Leopold Moczygemba

First name:

Leopold

Last Name:

Moczygemba

Date of birth:

18-10-1824

Place of birth:

Płużnica Wielka

Date of death:

23-02-1891

Place od death:

Dearborn

Age:

Profession:

social activist, clergyman, parish priest

Biography:

Leopold Moczygemba (1824-1891), member of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, founder of Panna Maria, Texas (1854). He patronised the formation of the St. Stanislaus Kostka Fraternal Aid Society in Chicago. Called the patriarch of the Polish community.