Look under self-immolation in Wikipedia: During the Great Schism of the Russian Church, entire vigalles of Old Believers burned themselves to death in an act known as fire baptism . Scattered instances of self-immolation have also been recorded by the Jesuit priests of France in the early 1600s. Their practice of this was not intended to be fatal, though. They would burn certain parts of their bodies (limbs such as the forearm, the thigh) to signify the pain Jesus endured while upon the cross. Also: Siwiec became the subject of the 1991 documentary film Hear My Cry (Usłyszcie mf3j krzyk), by Polish director Maciej Drygas. The film w*n the European Film Awards prize for Best Documentary that year. Is this available on video anywhere?And: Order of Polonia Restituta, Commander's Cross, awarded in 2003 by Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland. Because of Aleksander Kwaśniewski's past as communist dignitary, Ryszard Siwiec's family refused to accept the award. Finally, I was pretty freaked to learn from your article that one Walety Badylak self-immolated at the water pump in the Glowny Rynek in Krakow in 1980. Anything else on him in English? Or Jozef Dolak in Wroclaw in 1972?
