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The Salesian priests, who arrived in Przemyśl in 1907 led by their first superior, Reverend August Hlond, started their ministry in the Zasanie district running an oratory for working-class youths and performing pastoral duties in their chapel. In the years 1910-11 they built a modern house for children and the oratory youth and in 1912 they started to build a church. The outbreak of the First World War stopped further construction work. When the siege of Przemyśl started, the educational activity broke off and the house was turned into a hospital. Thanks to the effort of the then head of the Salesian institution Rev. Walery Kozak in the middle of November 1915 the house was dedicated to the needs of war orphans, for whom the Salesians ran a boarding house and a trade school with shoemaker and tailor workshops. In 1916, thanks to the Przemyśl ordinary, Bishop Józef Sebastian Pelczar, the Salesian priests in Przemyśl started to organize and run an organist school for students from all over Poland.