The priest Władysław Kardynał Rubin and Stanisław Łucki – the Kresy and friends: from Lviv to Paris and Rome

Life stories of Władysław Rubin – soldier, exile, priest, bishop and cardinal of the Roman Church and Stanisław Łucki – master of law, veteran, political, cultural and social activist. They both were very rich and largely similar. Both studied at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv, although not at the same time, and then they met. Both Ruby and Lutsk were involved, among others, in Sodalicja Mariańska or in Bratnia Pomocy (Bratniak), where their religious and national personalities were shaped, as well as moral, social and friendly attitudes. At the outbreak of World War II fate separated them for many years. Two friends, landlords from Lviv met in Paris many years after the war, accidentally close to the Luxembourg Garden. The embarrassment was enormous because they did not know the destinies of each other since the outbreak of the war. Ks. Władysław Cardinal Rubin and Stanisław Łucki, friends despite the hard times of the war – deportations to Siberia, fighting in the underground in France, the loss of their loved ones, who were savagely murdered in Pokucie, the impossibility of returning to Homeland – they have always radiated cheerfulness and enthusiasm. Their “borderland” friendship survived in exile, in separation and longing for their homeland. The Borderlands continued to live in their hearts, in their character and manner of being. Their identity was their strength. The value of the words “faithfulness” and “friendship” were implemented in a concrete, simple, cordial and direct way, simply real.