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Founder & Chairman Emeritus
of the Polish American Council of Texas

Most Rev. John W. Yanta,

Bishop Retired

Divine Providence: Looking
Back to See God’s Loving
Plan Unfolding in My Life

•I attended the 1971 Youth Summer
Study Program of the Kosciuszko
Foundation, New York City, at the
Jagiellonian University in Krakow,
Poland.

•In I 972, I attended the Summer
Study Program of the University of
Kansas at the Adam Mickiewicz
University in Poznan. Like the previ-
ous year, I spent several weekends
with Dr. Andrzej Brozek visiting the
Silesian parishes, their cemeteries,
and ancestral villages looking for my
relatives and ancestors.

• These two summer courses gave me the self-confi dence to organize and do the
following: In the early summer of I 973, by God’s design, I led the fi rst-ever group
of Texas Polish-Silesians back to the “Old Country” to visit Poland and especially
a 4-day visit with ancestral relatives in the villages of our Silesian ancestors. Now,
thanks to the presence of several priests from Poland locally, especially Monsi-
gnor Frank Kurzaj, trips to Poland and to our Polish-Silesian villages are available
annually and have produced much fruit. These have established a prophetic
“bridge” between Silesian Poland and Texas. Thank you, Lord, for the intercession
of our Blessed Mother, Polish saints, and deceased ancestors! I am so proud of
our new leaders!

P.O. Box 28125 – San Antonio, Texas 78228

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