Rzeszów, Poland - February 2018 - On February 13th in Rzeszów, the Knight's
Cross of the Order of Poland was conferred upon Salesian Fr Tadeusz Pater. The award was given by the President of the Polish Republic, Andrzej Duda, at the hands of the voivode of Podkarpacie (Subcarpathia), Ms Ewa Leniart, who declared: "Father Tadeusz has received this honor for the great merits in cultivating and spreading the history of the Poles of the eastern territories of Poland, later lost, and who today are part of the republics of Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus."