Father John Cyril Jablonovsky, C.P., Holy Cross Province (1912-1999)

Born in 1912 to Martin and Mary Jablonovsky in Chasta, Austria-Hungary he came to the United States with his mother. His father had arrived in 1913. The family lived in East Youngstown, Ohio where he met a Passionist missionary. From there he went to the Passionist prep at Normandy, Missouri. He was educated there from 1928 to 1931. He took his vows in 1932. In 1940 he was ordained a priest. He was a military chaplain in Burma and India from 1943 until 1946; from 1951 until 1953 he served mostly in Germany. He had a strong devotion to Mary. For many of the last years of his life he lived at Chicago, Illinois.