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"Everything that meets us without our will is undoubtedly the will of God" - these words belong to the Archbishop of Warsaw Zygmunt Felinsky. He was born in Volyn 200 years ago, graduated with honors from the Faculty of Mathematics of Moscow University, and then studied at the Sorbonne. In 1855, Felinsky was ordained a Catholic priest and began teaching philosophy at the Catholic Academy of St. Petersburg. Seven years later, he was appointed Archbishop of Warsaw. Felinsky launched a broad campaign to revive the former religious spirit of the Polish capital, carried out a number of reforms in the seminary and theological academy, and founded an orphanage for poor children. But after a year and a half, he was exiled by the tsarist authorities to Yaroslavl for twenty years. After his release, he was forbidden to return to the territory of his diocese. He died in 1895 in Krakow and was canonized in October 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI. We will talk about the amazing personality and difficult life of Saint Zygmunt with historian and Slavist Sergei Sloistov from the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.