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On 29 February 2008 our school received the name of Saint Luigi Orione. The official ceremony of giving the school the patron's name - the Saint Luigi Orione Lower Secondary School No 2 in Zdunska Wola took place in our town on 29 May 2008 at 10.00 am.
The ceremony was attended by local authorities as well as superiors of The Sons of Divine Providence Congregation. Our school in Zdunska Wola is in close neighbourhood to Dom Misyjny and Wysze Seminarium in Zduska Wola and the priests were kind co-organizers of the ceremony. The event was more solemn because there were representatives of all the schools in town with their banners.
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Born at Pontecurone, in the province of Alessandria (Piedmont), Don Luigi Orione was a student at the Valdocco Oratory in Turin.
He gained the attention of St. John Bosco, who numbered him among his favorite pupils. Since age 13, Luigi suffered health problems.
However, three years later, at age 16, he was present at St. John Bosco's death in Turin in 1888.
Immediately upon his death, Luigi's ailments were miraculously cured.
In 1892, the 20-year-old seminarian opened his own oratory, and the following year he started a vocational school for the poor.
He was ordained a priest on 13 April 1895.
One of the priests who was in his inner circle was Lorenzo Perosi, who later became Perpetual Director of the Sistine Choir and one of the most famous composers of sacred music. Perosi was born in the same year and the same province (Tortona) as Orione; they remained lifelong friends.
In 1908, Orione went to Messina and Reggio Calabria, both of which were devastated by respective earthquakes.
He dedicated three years to help those in need, most especially the caring of orphans.
In 1915 he went to Marsica when that region had a similarly devastating earthquake.
At the end of World War I, Don Orione began to expand his work.
He founded schools, farming colonies, and charity organizations -- always with a special emphasis on helping orphans and the poor.
Over the next two decades, he started foundations throughout Italy and the Americas.
In the winter of 1940, Don Orione started to suffer serious cardiac and pulmonary ailments.
He went to Sanremo to recuperate, but not without a tinge of regret.
On March 9, 1940, he is recorded as saying, "It is not among the palm trees that I would like to die," he said, "but among the poor who are Jesus Christ."
Three days later, surrounded by fellow priests of his Orionine order, Luigi Orione died. His last words were, "Jesus, Jesus! I am going."
Orione's body was exhumed in 1965.
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Every pupil in Lower Secondary School must take exams which check their knowledge in all subjects at the end of their learning. Exams last two days. The first one concerns subjects like Polish, History and the Art. Pupils must write an essay and answer several questions from Literature, History and Art.The second examination covers subjects like Mathematics, Physics, Geography and Chemistry. Pupils must solve a set of exercises, which sometimes are very difficult.
This year examinations are on 22 and 23 April. Each of them last for two hours, and altogether it is possible to get 100 points. This exams are very important - what next school we can go to depends on the results we get. Sometimes we call these tests "Small Matura Test".
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