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Zygmunt Kryszkiewicz was born on May 2, 1915, in Mława, Poland. His father, Tadeusz Kryszkiewicz was the owner of a mechanical workshop, and his mother, Apolonia Gołębiowskich was a homemaker.
After getting his basic education locally, he attended a school run by the Passionists in Przasnysz. Zygmunt became a Passionist novice in 1933 and received the name “Bernard of the Mother of Fair Love.” A year after beginning his novitiate, Bernard professed his first vows as a Passionist.
In 1936, he was sent to Rome to study theology at the Passionists’ headquarters, and he made his perpetual vows a year later. He was ordained a priest on June 3, 1938, and returned to Poland.
Father Bernard became the deputy director of seminarians in Przasnysz, north-central Poland. When World War II broke out, however, he was sent to serve the seminarians at Rawa Mazowiecka, central Poland, the only Passionist house allowed to remain open under German occupation. There, in addition to teaching and other pastoral work, he served as director of seminarians.
In 1945, the Passionist house became a hospital where Father Bernard served as a nurse and cook for the community. He treated not only the sick, but also survivors of Soviet bombings and wounded soldiers. He eventually returned from Rawa Mazowiecka to Przasnysz where he set about restoring the make-shift hospitals into Passionist monasteries for religious use.
Father Bernard died of typhus on July 7, 1945, in Przasnysz, Poland; he was 30-years old. In 2021, Pope Francis named Bernard a “Venerable” of the Catholic Church.
