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'''Helena Agnieszka Kmieć''' (9 February 1991 – 24 January 2017) was a [[Poland|Polish]] Roman Catholic [[missionary]], awarded the Gold [[Cross of Merit (Poland)|Cross of Merit]], in 2024, her beatification process began.
== Biography ==
Helena Agnieszka Kmieć<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=M.P. z 2017 r. poz. 348 |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WMP20170000348 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl}}</ref> was born on 9 February 1991 in [[Kraków]]. She graduated from the High School of the Catholic Association of Educators in [[Libiąż]]. She was a scholarship holder of the Leweston School in [[Sherborne]], [[United Kingdom|UK]], where she obtained her high school diploma, at the same time pursuing an individual course of study in her high school, from which she graduated in 2009. In 2014, she obtained a master's degree in engineering at the Faculty of Chemistry of the [[Silesian University of Technology]], where she studied technology and chemical engineering in English. After graduating, she worked as a flight attendant for an airline.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2017-02-19 |title=Pomagała dzieciom w Boliwii, została zamordowana. "Żegnamy symbol dobra, szczerej miłości bliźniego" |url=https://tvn24.pl/krakow/pogrzeb-wolontariuszki-zamordowanej-w-boliwii-ra716792-ls2477117 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=TVN24 |language=pl}}</ref>
She was active in the [[academic chaplaincy]] in [[Gliwice]] and sang in the Academic Choir of the Silesian University of Technology.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Helena Kmieć zginęła w Boliwii: Policja zatrzymała podejrzanych |url=http://www.dziennikzachodni.pl/wiad...wii-policja-zatrzymala-podejrzanych,11726754/}}</ref> Since 2012, she has been a volunteer as part of the Missionary Volunteer Service "Salvator" in Trzebinia. She organized day camps for children at the parishes of the Salvatorian Fathers in [[Galgahévíz]], [[Hungary]] and in [[Timișoara]], [[Romania]]. On Friday, 6 July 2012, as part of the evangelization at the railway station in [[Wrocław]], she sang ''Listen, Israel, the Lord is your God, the Lord is the only one''.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url= |title=Ewangelizacja na dworcu PKP we Wrocławiu 2012 |language=en |access-date=2024-04-27 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref> In 2013, during the missions in [[Zambia]], she worked with children and young people at the Salvation Home center in [[Lusaka]] and at the Kulanga Bana Farm youth center in [[Chamulimba]] (a village in [[Chongwe District]]). During the [[World Youth Day]] in [[Poland]], she was their coordinator in the parish of St. Barbara in her hometown of Libiąż.<ref name=":1" />
On 8 January 2017, together with [[Anita Szuwald]], she went on a mission to [[Bolivia]], where she planned to help the Servant Sisters of [[Dębica]] in the orphanage in [[Cochabamba]] until June.<ref name=":2" /> She died on the night of 24/25 January 2017, stabbed during an assault on the facility.<ref name=":1" /> In March 2018, a Bolivian court sentenced her killer, Romualdo Mamio dos Santos, to 30 years in prison.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-03-21 |title=Zabójca 25-letniej Heleny Kmieć usłyszał wyrok |url=https://www.fakt.pl/wydarzenia/pols...j-heleny-kmiec-zamordowanej-w-boliwii/yn4ze88 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=Fakt |language=pl}}</ref>
By the decision of the [[President of Poland]] of 7 February 2017, she was posthumously awarded the Gold [[Cross of Merit (Poland)|Cross of Merit]] for her merits in charitable and social activities and her commitment to people in need of help.<ref name=":0" />
Her funeral ceremonies began on 18 February 2017 at the [[Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima (Trzebinia)|Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima]] in [[Trzebinia]], and on February 19 they continued in her hometown of Libiąż. The Holy Mass preceding the funeral was presided over by Cardinal [[Stanisław Dziwisz]]. The funeral ceremony was of a state character. Helena Kmasz was buried in the cemetery at the parish church of St. Barbara in Libiąż.<ref>{{Cite web |title=W Libiążu pochowano zamordowaną w Boliwii Helenę Kmieć |url=https://www.rmf24.pl/fakty/polska/n...amordowana-w-boliwii-helene-kmiec,nId,2354917 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=www.rmf24.pl |language=pl}}</ref>
== The Beatification Process ==
In December 2022, the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kraków|Archdiocese of Kraków]] announced the start of the beatification process for Helena Kmieć, and in April 2024, an edict was issued announcing the official start of the process of beatification of the Polish missionary.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Edykt w sprawie procesu beatyfikacyjnego Służebnicy Bożej Heleny Kmieć |url=https://diecezja.pl/aktualnosci/edy...atyfikacyjnego-sluzebnicy-bozej-heleny-kmiec/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=Archidiecezja Krakowska |language=pl-PL}}</ref> The beatification process of Helena will begin on 10 May 2024 in the Chapel of the Palace of the Archbishops of Kraków and from that moment she will be entitled to the title of [[Servant of God]].
==References==
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olish Roman Catholic missionaries]]
[[Category:Murder victims]]
Okumaya devam et...
'''Helena Agnieszka Kmieć''' (9 February 1991 – 24 January 2017) was a [[Poland|Polish]] Roman Catholic [[missionary]], awarded the Gold [[Cross of Merit (Poland)|Cross of Merit]], in 2024, her beatification process began.
== Biography ==
Helena Agnieszka Kmieć<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=M.P. z 2017 r. poz. 348 |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WMP20170000348 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl}}</ref> was born on 9 February 1991 in [[Kraków]]. She graduated from the High School of the Catholic Association of Educators in [[Libiąż]]. She was a scholarship holder of the Leweston School in [[Sherborne]], [[United Kingdom|UK]], where she obtained her high school diploma, at the same time pursuing an individual course of study in her high school, from which she graduated in 2009. In 2014, she obtained a master's degree in engineering at the Faculty of Chemistry of the [[Silesian University of Technology]], where she studied technology and chemical engineering in English. After graduating, she worked as a flight attendant for an airline.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2017-02-19 |title=Pomagała dzieciom w Boliwii, została zamordowana. "Żegnamy symbol dobra, szczerej miłości bliźniego" |url=https://tvn24.pl/krakow/pogrzeb-wolontariuszki-zamordowanej-w-boliwii-ra716792-ls2477117 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=TVN24 |language=pl}}</ref>
She was active in the [[academic chaplaincy]] in [[Gliwice]] and sang in the Academic Choir of the Silesian University of Technology.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Helena Kmieć zginęła w Boliwii: Policja zatrzymała podejrzanych |url=http://www.dziennikzachodni.pl/wiad...wii-policja-zatrzymala-podejrzanych,11726754/}}</ref> Since 2012, she has been a volunteer as part of the Missionary Volunteer Service "Salvator" in Trzebinia. She organized day camps for children at the parishes of the Salvatorian Fathers in [[Galgahévíz]], [[Hungary]] and in [[Timișoara]], [[Romania]]. On Friday, 6 July 2012, as part of the evangelization at the railway station in [[Wrocław]], she sang ''Listen, Israel, the Lord is your God, the Lord is the only one''.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url= |title=Ewangelizacja na dworcu PKP we Wrocławiu 2012 |language=en |access-date=2024-04-27 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref> In 2013, during the missions in [[Zambia]], she worked with children and young people at the Salvation Home center in [[Lusaka]] and at the Kulanga Bana Farm youth center in [[Chamulimba]] (a village in [[Chongwe District]]). During the [[World Youth Day]] in [[Poland]], she was their coordinator in the parish of St. Barbara in her hometown of Libiąż.<ref name=":1" />
On 8 January 2017, together with [[Anita Szuwald]], she went on a mission to [[Bolivia]], where she planned to help the Servant Sisters of [[Dębica]] in the orphanage in [[Cochabamba]] until June.<ref name=":2" /> She died on the night of 24/25 January 2017, stabbed during an assault on the facility.<ref name=":1" /> In March 2018, a Bolivian court sentenced her killer, Romualdo Mamio dos Santos, to 30 years in prison.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-03-21 |title=Zabójca 25-letniej Heleny Kmieć usłyszał wyrok |url=https://www.fakt.pl/wydarzenia/pols...j-heleny-kmiec-zamordowanej-w-boliwii/yn4ze88 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=Fakt |language=pl}}</ref>
By the decision of the [[President of Poland]] of 7 February 2017, she was posthumously awarded the Gold [[Cross of Merit (Poland)|Cross of Merit]] for her merits in charitable and social activities and her commitment to people in need of help.<ref name=":0" />
Her funeral ceremonies began on 18 February 2017 at the [[Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima (Trzebinia)|Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima]] in [[Trzebinia]], and on February 19 they continued in her hometown of Libiąż. The Holy Mass preceding the funeral was presided over by Cardinal [[Stanisław Dziwisz]]. The funeral ceremony was of a state character. Helena Kmasz was buried in the cemetery at the parish church of St. Barbara in Libiąż.<ref>{{Cite web |title=W Libiążu pochowano zamordowaną w Boliwii Helenę Kmieć |url=https://www.rmf24.pl/fakty/polska/n...amordowana-w-boliwii-helene-kmiec,nId,2354917 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=www.rmf24.pl |language=pl}}</ref>
== The Beatification Process ==
In December 2022, the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kraków|Archdiocese of Kraków]] announced the start of the beatification process for Helena Kmieć, and in April 2024, an edict was issued announcing the official start of the process of beatification of the Polish missionary.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Edykt w sprawie procesu beatyfikacyjnego Służebnicy Bożej Heleny Kmieć |url=https://diecezja.pl/aktualnosci/edy...atyfikacyjnego-sluzebnicy-bozej-heleny-kmiec/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=Archidiecezja Krakowska |language=pl-PL}}</ref> The beatification process of Helena will begin on 10 May 2024 in the Chapel of the Palace of the Archbishops of Kraków and from that moment she will be entitled to the title of [[Servant of God]].
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kmieć, Helena}}
[[Category:1991 births]]
[[Category:2017 deaths]]
[[Category
olish Roman Catholic missionaries]][[Category:Murder victims]]
Okumaya devam et...