Casimir zeglen biography
Born in in Kaczanówka near Tarnopol, at the age of 18 he entered the Resurrectionist Order in Lwów (today Lviv).!
Casimir Zeglen
Inventor of a silk bulletproof vest
Casimir Zeglen, CR (Polish: Kazimierz Żegleń; 4 March 1869 – before 1927[citation needed]) was a Polish Catholic priest who invented a silk bulletproof vest in the late 19th century.[1][2][3] He was a vowed member of the Resurrectionists.
Life and career
Born in 1869 in Kaczanówka near Tarnopol, at the age of 18 he entered the Resurrectionist Order in Lwów (today Lviv). In 1890, he moved to the United States.
In 1893, after the assassination of Carter Harrison Sr., the mayor of Chicago, he worked on an improved silk bulletproof vest.
Casimir Zeglen was born in , near Tarnopol in Galicia, which was at that time a part of Poland occupied by the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
In 1897, he worked on it with Jan Szczepanik. It saved the life of Alfonso XIII, the King of Spain—his carriage was covered with Szczepanik's bulletproof armour when a bomb exploded near it.
He was the pastor of St. Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Church in Chicago, then the largest Polish church in the country, with 40,000 in the parish.
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