Rudolf of the Transverberation was born on November 14, 1919 in Bachowice, (Poland) not far from Wadowice, in the archdiocese of Krakow, into a practicing and farming family.

He completed his middle-classical studies in the grammar school of the Discalced Carmelites in Wadowice, after which he was welcomed into the novitiate of the Order in Czerna near Krakow, where on August 28, 1935 he received from the hands of the prior, Blessed Alfonsus Mary Mazurek, the Carmelite habit. He studied in Wadowice and Krakow. Having made his solemn profession in Krakow on 21^st of November 1940, he was ordained priest in Czerna on 24^th of June 1944.

For many years of his religious life, he worked in the formation of novices and students as a teacher, educating entire generations of Polish Discalced Carmelite religious. He was also spiritual director of numerous people, lay and consecrated, as well as diocesan priests. The esteem in which the religious held him is also documented by the fact that three times they chose him as a Provincial Definitor.

In the last years of his life, he stayed in the Wadowice monastery as spiritual father of the boys of the College and as a highly esteemed chaplain of the sick in the city hospital. Struck by the incurable disease of cancer, he heroically endured suffering, and a few hours before his death, he received in the hospital the welcome visit of Fr. Camillo Maccise, Superior General of the Order, who was carrying out a pastoral visit of the Province of Krakow. The blessing received by Father General was his last pact in the Order of his total self-giving to Christ and to his neighbour, for the good of the Church.

He died on February 27, 1999.

The Diocesan Inquiry into his «Life, Virtue and Reputation for Holiness» was held from 11^th of January 2011 to 11^th of June 2017 at the Krakow Archdiocese. On 18^th of May 2018 the decree of validity was granted.