Bogdan Kacmajor (1954–2022) was a Polish man who founded the Niebo Congregation of Healing by the Holy Spirit, a religious community he and its members regarded as sent by God. He was known as a healer and was even regarded by some as a miracle worker. Born in Elbląg, he believed he had the power to cure illnesses through the laying on of hands, a conviction he said came to him in a prophetic dream. He later moved to Northampton in the United Kingdom, where he painted and exhibited his work.
Early life and healing
Kacmajor was born into an intelligentsia family and was raised by his mother after his father died when he was about two and a half. He left secondary school in his fourth year for unknown reasons. After being drafted into the army he rebelled against service, was sent to a psychiatrist who judged him fully sane, and was then imprisoned. He began receiving sick people in Elbląg in 1982 and, from 1984, on his farm in Kruszewnia near Morąg.
Community and later years
After selling his home in 1989 he settled in Majdan Kozłowiecki in Lublin Voivodeship, where he and about sixty former patients formed a household for the congregation. In 2002, after conflicts with members, local residents and state authorities over the schooling of children raised in the community, he moved to Stare Bystre in the Podhale region, where his activity gradually faded. He later worked briefly in Nysa and Ukraine before settling in Northampton.
Cultural references
The television series Niebo. Rok w piekle, in which Tomasz Kot played the role of Piotr Wójcik, was inspired by Kacmajor.