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The Jesuit College, Pinsk

Scott 231
BELARUS, 1997, 9th centenary of the city of Pinsk, Scott 129

The Jesuit college in Pinsk, now the Regional Museum, may be most famous as the burial place of St. Andrew Bobola. After his martyrdom the college was pillaged and burned several times and the tomb forgotten. But forty-five years later the rector of the college, considering a patron for the school, had visions of the martyr who told him he would be the patron of the college and also where to find his tomb. Despite the dampness of the underground tomb, the body turned out to be astonishingly incorrupt. More

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