CURRICULUM VITAE
After G.C.E at A level in 1981, I moved to Turku to study at the University of Turku, Faculty of Medicine.
After my graduation in 1987, I worked at the Hospital of the City of Turku and then moved to the town Ekenäs (=Tammisaari) by the southern coast of Finland. Here I work at the Garrison Hospital of Nylands Brigadad (the link is in Swedish). I also have another home in the town of Kuressaare on the island of Saaremaa in Estonia.
Even though I am a Finn, my native language is Swedish, and that is also the language mostly spoken in Tammisaari. As a matter of fact, Nylands Brigad is the only garrison in Finland, where Swedish is the spoken language.
I have also worked as a theacher in anatomy and physiology at the University of Turku and at Tammisaari Nurses' Training School.
In 1990 I was invited to join the Round Table and I really have felt comfortable together with my Friends in Table. Now I am already an Old Tabler.
Together with some friends I own a brewery in Tammisaari.
I am a Roman Catholic.(The link is in Finnish). I have been bestowed an own chapel in the town of Ravenna in Italy. My own ordinary, the Bishop of Helsinki, has, according to can 1226, granted me permission to have a homechapel in my home.
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It has not been cheap to buy everything needed for a chapel and I still have running expenses for candels, incense et.c. This summer I also have a kneeler done in the UK for the chapel
COMPLEMENTUM
Raymond Kolbe was born the second son of a poor weaver at Zdunska Wola near Lodz in Poland. In his infancy Raymond seems to have been normally mischievious but one day after his mother had scolded him for some mischief or other her words took effect and brought about a radical change in the childs behaviour.
Later Raymond explained “That night I asked The Mother of God what was to become of me. Then she came to me holding two crowns, one white and one red. She asked if I was willing to accept either of these crowns. The white one meant that I should persevere in purity, and the red that I should become a martyr. I said I would accept them both”.
His belief in this dream coloured all his future actions. In 1910 he became a Franciscan taking the name Maximilian. After studying at Rome he was ordained in 1919 and returned to Poland.
He was taken to the death camp Auschwitz when the friary he had opened was closed down. There he died as prisoner 16770 on August 14 th.
When a prisioner escaped from the camp, the Nazis selected 10 others to be killed by starvation in reprisal for the escape. One of the 10 selected to die Franciszek Gajowniczek began to cry My wife! My children! I will never see them again! At this Maximilian Kolbe stepped forward and asked to die in his place. His request was granted. In this he fulfilled the words of Christ: "Greater love than this has no man, that he give up his life for his friend."
In my sparetime I am either reading, surfing the net or watching television or then I am abroad usually in Estonia or Italy where my goodfather lives [yes, I have the protection of the maffia ;-)]. You will never find me doing sports, more likely I am absorbed in a book about theology or history. I love good food and dislike unhonest people. I also hate having ICQ messages from "anonymous" persons with no profile on their info-pages.
MERITA, DIGNITATES ET INSIGNIA
- D.D.S.
- Knight of Merit of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George
- Knight of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
- Commander's Cross of The Order of St Stanislas
- Cultural Attache of the Antico Principato di Seborga in Finland.
- The Medal of Defence of the Country
- The Siikajoki Cross with Diploma (A Finnish Military Cross)
- Badge of Merit of the Finnish Red Cross
- Badge of Merit of the Finnish Scouts
- Pilgrimage Medal of the Order of Malta
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