On 22 May 2021, his Holiness, Pope Francis received in Audience his Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. During the Audience, the Supreme Pontiff authorized the same Congregation to promulgate the Decree concerning the heroic virtues of the Servant of God, Bernard of the Mother of Beautiful Love (born, Zygmunt Kryszkiewich), a professed priest of the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ. He was born on 2 May 1915, in Mława, Poland, and died in Przasnysz, Poland, on 7 July 1945. He entered the novitiate of the Passionists in Sadowie and he professed First Vows on 11 November 1933. In 1936 he was sent to Rome to continue his theological studies. A year after his arrival in the eternal city, the Servant of God professed Perpetual Vows and on 3 June 1938 he was ordained a priest.
He returned home to Poland on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. He was assigned to the Passionist monastery in Rawa Mazowiecka, where he remained for almost five years as director of seminarians, preacher, and confessor. During the Soviet bombardment of the city of Rawa he heroically dug out with his own hands those who were buried in the ruins, carrying them on his shoulders to the monastery where he cared for their wounds. When the hospital was destroyed as a result of the bombings, at the initiative of the Servant of God, the small monastery became an infirmary for the sick and the wounded. After the liberation of Rawa, Father Bernard was assigned as Superior of the monastery in the city of Przasnysz. He worked to restore the building and to assist the local population materially and spiritually.
Subsequently, he contracted typhus, which was then widespread among the population. He was hospitalized in Przasnysz where he died on 7 July 1945.
