Legacy
In July 1979 Kaller's successor Warmia's Bishop Józef Glemp visited Straelen, where he had earlier improved his German. On his further way to Nuremberg Glemp stopped in Königstein to visit Kaller's grave. On 10 October 1980, Kaller's 100th birthday, Glemp celebrated a pontifical requiem in honour of Kaller in Frombork's Cathedral of Ss. Mary Assumption and Andrew, commemorating in his preach Kaller's personality as priest and his benedictory work for the diocese. In 1997, Archbishop Edmund Michał Piszcz of Warmia and the community of Ermlanders in Western Germany commemorated Kaller and placed busts of him in Germany and Poland. On 4 May 2003 the procedure for his beatification started.
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