This article is dedicated to Professor Józef Piechnik, a Jesuit who died in 2006. The late historian was an eminent expert on Jesuit education, a professor at the Ignatianum College of Philosophy and Pedagogy in Krakow, and an honorary doctor of the University of Vilnius. He fulfilled many different functions and tasks in his life. He was, among other things, the director of the WAM Publishing House, a teacher and educator of young people, president of the Union of Industrial and Crafts Youth, co-founder and honorary president of the Rupert Mayer Children's Aid Foundation, and a friend of the Arch-Brotherhood of Mercy in Krakow. He was awarded the Cracoviae Merenti Medal.