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The publication El Tiemp de Colombia reports the death of a hermit, the Polish-born priest Ignatius Jarosz. Fr. Jarosz was consecrated a priest in 1959 at the age of twenty-five. He became a Redemptorist Order priest twenty-five years later, leaving Poland for Czechoslovakia, then Brazil,Argentina, andColombia. He lived as a hermit in the Dagua Mountains of Colombia, on the Pacific side, halfway betweenthecitiesof Cali and Buenaventura. Althouigh known as an afable person among many religious who knew him, Fr. Jarosz never ventured beyond his residence in the mountains.