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Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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religious status

Servant of God

surname

CIKOTO

forename(s)

Andrew (pl. Andrzej)

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function

religious cleric

creed

Byzantine–Slavic Catholic Church BSmore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.01.13]

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]

congregation

Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary MICmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

(i.e. Marians of the Immaculate Conception)

diocese / province

Apostolic BS Exarchate of Harbin (Russia)more on
www.catholic-hierarchy.org
[access: 2022.12.04]

Vilnius archdiocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

Vilnius diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

academic distinctions

Sacred Theology Candidate

nationality

Belarusian

date and place
of death

11.02.1952

ITL OzerLagGuLAG slave labour camp network
today: Novochunka, Chunskiy reg., Irkutsk oblast, Russia

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.04.04]
ru.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.04.12]

alt. dates and places
of death

13.02.1952

ITL OzerLagGuLAG slave labour camp network
today: Chuksha, Chunskiy reg., Irkutsk oblast, Russia

more on
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[access: 2020.04.04]
ru.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.04.12]

details of death

For the first time arrested by the Russians in 1920.

Released.

Arrested again on 22.12.1948 in Harbin by the Chinese, together with 4 other priests and civilian lecturers of St Michael lyceum run by Marian Fathers in Harbin.

On 25.12.1948 deported from China and handed over to the Russians, into genocidal MGB (NKVD) organisation's hands.

On 27.12.1948 jailed in a Siberian prison Chita, where till 05.1949 was interrogated many times.

Tortured.

Accused of „founding terrorist organisation in St Michael lyceum, anti–Russian agitation, spying for Vatican”.

On 28.09.1949 sentenced — in absentia in Moscow, by a genocidal «Troika MGB» Russian summary court — to 25 years of slave labour in Russian concentration camps Gulag.

In 11.1949 transported to a group of concentration camps n. Tayshet (ITL AngarLag, ITL OzerLag).

Held in few camps — lagpoints — in Tayshet, Chukcha (from 19.01.1950), Novochunka (from 04.1951) and back in Tayshet (from 06.1951), among others.

Next in a few camps' „hospitals”: in lagpoint No. 11 and lagpoint No. 38 („Ozerstroy hospital”).

In the last one — prob. in Novochunka village on Chunka river c. 200 km from Bratsk — suffering from untreated festering ulcers, especially on his legs, soon perished.

cause of death

extermination: exhaustion and disease

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

ITL OzerLagClick to display the description, ITL AngarLagClick to display the description, OsobLagsClick to display the description, GulagClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

05.12.1891

Plavushkaform.: part of Tupalshchina grange
today: Zhodishki ssov., Smarhon dist., Grodno reg., Belarus

more on
be.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.06]

religious vows

24.09.1921 (temporary)

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

13.06.1914 (Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
)

positions held

1939 – 1948

Apostolic Exarch i.e. Archimandrite — Harbintoday: Heilongjiang prov., China
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.03.19]
⋄ Apostolic Exarchate of Harbin of the Catholic Byzantine–Slavic (Russian) rite — appointment: on 20.10.1939

21.07.1933 – 22.07.1939

general superior — Rometoday: Rome prov., Lazio reg., Italy
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ General House (at 284 Corso Vittorio Emanuele), Marians of the Immaculate Conception MIC

1925 – 1933

superior — Druyatoday: Druya ssov., Braslaw dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.29]
⋄ Congregation's house, Marians of the Immaculate Conception MIC — also: master of the novitiate (from 1925), founder and teacher of the Polish King Stephen Batory's Gymnasium

1923 – 1925

friar — Druyatoday: Druya ssov., Braslaw dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.29]
⋄ Congregation's house, Marians of the Immaculate Conception MIC ⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Myorytoday: Myory dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.03.19]
RC deanery — also: administrator (till c. 1925) and vicar (from 1923) of the local parish

1921 – 1923

retreat — (United States of America territory)today: United States of America
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.08.05]
⋄ Congregation's houses, Marians of the Immaculate Conception MIC — missionary among Polish, Lithuanian and Belarusian emigrants, collecting funds for the opening of the Congregation's monasteries in Poland

1920 – 24.09.1921

novitiate — Marijampolėtoday: Marijampolė eld., Marijampolė dist., Marijampolė Cou., Lithuania
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.13]
⋄ Congregation's house, Marians of the Immaculate Conception MIC

01.09.1920

accession — Marians of the Immaculate Conception MIC

1919 – 1920

professor — Minsktoday: Minsk city reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ Theological Seminary — lecturer of fundamental theology; also: seminary treasury officer / procurator

1917 – 1919

administrator — Maladzyechnatoday: Maladzyechna dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ St Casimir the Prince and Confessor RC parish ⋄ Vileykatoday: Vileyka dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.06]
RC deanery — also: founder and prefect of a three–grade Polish school

1914 – 1917

student — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ theology, Imperial Roman Catholic Spiritual Academy (1842‐1918) — postgraduate specialised studies crowned with Sacred Theology Candidate's degree

1909 – 1913

student — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

others related
in death

STANKIEWICZClick to display biography Adam, ZJATYKClick to display biography John

sites and events
descriptions

ITL OzerLag: Russian Rus. Исправи́тельно‐Трудово́й Ла́герь (Eng. Corrective Labor Camp) ITL Rus. Озерный (Eng. Ozerniy) — concentration and slave forced labor camp (within the Gulag complex) — headquartered in the town of Taishet in the Irkutsk Oblast (in 1953‐1954 temporarily in Bratsk, in the same oblast). Founded on 07.12.1948 and until 1954 also functioning as the Rus. Особый лагерь (Eng. Special camp) GULAG No. 7. Prisoners among whom were many Poles slaved at the construction of the Baikal‐Amur railway — initially the Tayshet‐Bratsk section, and then from Bratsk to Ust'‐Kut (distance c. 700 km), at forest clearing and wood processing, and the related maintenance of industrial complexes, and the construction of a hydroelectric power plant , in quarries, in lime production, in agriculture and in the production of consumer goods, etc. At its peak — till the death on 05.03.1953 of Russian socialist leader, Joseph Stalin — c. 37,000 prisoners were held there: e.g. 31,881 (01.01.1950); 33,325 (01.01.1951); 37,093 (01.01.1952), one quarter of them were women; 31,225 (01.01.1953); 36,152 (01.02.1953); 29,347 (01.01.1954). Ceased to exist in 1960. (more on: old.memo.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.04.08]
, gulagmuseum.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.14]
)

ITL AngarLag: Russian Rus. Исправи́тельно‐Трудово́й Ла́герь (Eng. Corrective Labor Camp) ITL Rus. Ангарский (Eng. Angarskiy) — concentration and slave forced labor camp (within the Gulag complex) — headquartered in Bratsk, and from 1949 in Zayarsk, in Irkutsk Oblast. Founded on 13.01.1947 and on 29.09.1948 part of the ITL TayshetLag was included in it. Prisoners slaved at the construction of the Bratsk‐Ust‐Kut railway line (c. 350 km, part of the Baikal‐Amur railway highway) and the bridge over the Angara River, on the completion of the Taishet‐Brack railway line, on the transport of goods by rail to Ust‐Kut on the Lena River, at river transport along the Angara River, construction of access roads to many factories and enterprises, construction of this industrial complex (including the recycling plant in Tayshet, brick kilns, lime production factories, Ust‐Kut river shipyard) and many workshops and warehouses (mechanical, repair, production of camp clothing and footwear, food supply), etc. At its peak — till the death on 05.03.1953 of Russian socialist leader, Joseph Stalin — c. 40,000 prisoners were held there: e.g. 35,959 (01.01.1949); 43,591 (01.01.1950); 41,626 (01.01.1951); 26,858 (01.01.1952); 21,156 (01.01.1953); 20,443 (01.01.1954). Ceased to exist in 1960. (more on: www.gulag.memorial.deClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20]
)

OsobLags: Pursuant to Decree No. 416‐159сс dated 21.02.1948 of the Russian government, the Russian criminal organization MVD (successor to the NKVD) issued a Decree No. 00219 of 28.02.1948 establishing a separate network of camps within the Gulag system for a „special group” of political prisoners sentenced under Art. 58 of the Penal Code (referring to „enemies of the people”, i.e. accused of treason, espionage, terrorism, etc.) Initially, the group of camps included the ITL MinLag, ITL GorLag, ITL DubravLag, ITL StepLag and ITL BerLag concentration camps. Later, the following ones were added: ITL RechLag, ITL OzerLag, ITL PeschanŁag, ITL LugLag, ITL Kamyshlag, ITL DalLag, ITL VodorazDelLag. After the death of the Russian socialist leader, Joseph Stalin, in 1953, the three largest revolts in the history of the Gulag took place there: the Norilsk Uprising, the Vorkuta Uprising and the Kengir Uprising. In c. 1954 the camps were converted into standard correctional camps. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.01.26]
)

Gulag: The acronym Gulag comes from the Rus. Главное управление исправительно‐трудовых лагерей и колоний (Eng. Main Board of Correctional Labor Camps). The network of Russian concentration camps for slave labor was formally established by the decision of the highest Russian authorities on 27.06.1929. Control was taken over by the OGPU, the predecessor of the genocidal NKVD (from 1934) and the MGB (from 1946). Individual gulags (camps) were often established in remote, sparsely populated areas, where industrial or transport facilities important for the Russian state were built. They were modeled on the first „great construction of communism”, the White Sea‐Baltic Canal (1931‐1932), and Naftali Frenkel, of Jewish origin, is considered the creator of the system of using forced slave labor within the Gulag. He went down in history as the author of the principle „We have to squeeze everything out of the prisoner in the first three months — then nothing is there for us”. He was to be the creator, according to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, of the so‐called „Boiler system”, i.e. the dependence of food rations on working out a certain percentage of the norm. The term ZEK — prisoner — i.e. Rus. заключенный‐каналоармец (Eng. canal soldier) — was coined in the ITL BelBaltLag managed by him, and was adopted to mean a prisoner in Russian slave labor camps. Up to 12 mln prisoners were held in Gulag camps at one time, i.e. c. 5% of Russia's population. In his book „The Gulag Archipelago”, Solzhenitsyn estimated that c. 60 mln people were killed in the Gulag until 1956. Formally dissolved on 20.01.1960. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.04.08]
)

Ribbentrop‐Molotov: Genocidal Russian‐German alliance pact between Russian leader Joseph Stalin and German leader Adolf Hitler signed on 23.08.1939 in Moscow by respective foreign ministers, Mr. Vyacheslav Molotov for Russia and Joachim von Ribbentrop for Germany. The pact sanctioned and was the direct cause of joint Russian and German invasion of Poland and the outbreak of the World War II in 09.1939. In a political sense, the pact was an attempt to restore the status quo ante before 1914, with one exception, namely the „commercial” exchange of the so‐called „Kingdom of Poland”, which in 1914 was part of the Russian Empire, fore Eastern Galicia (today's western Ukraine), in 1914 belonging to the Austro‐Hungarian Empire. Galicia, including Lviv, was to be taken over by the Russians, the „Kingdom of Poland” — under the name of the General Governorate — Germany. The resultant „war was one of the greatest calamities and dramas of humanity in history, for two atheistic and anti‐Christian ideologies — national and international socialism — rejected God and His fifth Decalogue commandment: Thou shall not kill!” (Abp Stanislav Gądecki, 01.09.2019). The decisions taken — backed up by the betrayal of the formal allies of Poland, France and Germany, which on 12.09.1939, at a joint conference in Abbeville, decided not to provide aid to attacked Poland and not to take military action against Germany (a clear breach of treaty obligations with Poland) — were on 28.09.1939 slightly altered and made more precise when a treaty on „German‐Russian boundaries and friendship” was agreed by the same murderous signatories. One of its findings was establishment of spheres of influence in Central and Eastern Europe and in consequence IV partition of Poland. In one of its secret annexes agreed, that: „the Signatories will not tolerate on its respective territories any Polish propaganda that affects the territory of the other Side. On their respective territories they will suppress all such propaganda and inform each other of the measures taken to accomplish it”. The agreements resulted in a series of meeting between two genocidal organization representing both sides — German Gestapo and Russian NKVD when coordination of efforts to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and Polish leading classes (in Germany called «Intelligenzaktion», in Russia took the form of Katyń massacres) where discussed. Resulted in deaths of hundreds of thousands of Polish intelligentsia, including thousands of priests presented here, and tens of millions of ordinary people,. The results of this Russian‐German pact lasted till 1989 and are still in evidence even today. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30]
)

Pius XI's encyclicals: Facing the creation of two totalitarian systems in Europe, which seemed to compete with each other, though there were more similarities than contradictions between them, Pope Pius XI issued in 03.1937 (within 5 days) two encyclicals. In the „Mit brennender Sorge” (Eng. „With Burning Concern”) published on 14.03.1938, condemned the national socialism prevailing in Germany. The Pope wrote: „Whoever, following the old Germanic‐pre‐Christian beliefs, puts various impersonal fate in the place of a personal God, denies the wisdom of God and Providence […], whoever exalts earthly values: race or nation, or state, or state system, representatives of state power or other fundamental values of human society, […] and makes them the highest standard of all values, including religious ones, and idolizes them, this one […] is far from true faith in God and from a worldview corresponding to such faith”. On 19.03.1937, published „Divini Redemptoris” (Eng. „Divine Redeemer”), in which criticized Russian communism, dialectical materialism and the class struggle theory. The Pope wrote: „Communism deprives man of freedom, and therefore the spiritual basis of all life norms. It deprives the human person of all his dignity and any moral support with which he could resist the onslaught of blind passions […] This is the new gospel that Bolshevik and godless communism preaches as a message of salvation and redemption of humanity”… Pius XI demanded that the established human law be subjected to the natural law of God , recommended the implementation of the ideal of a Christian state and society, and called on Catholics to resist. Two years later, National Socialist Germany and Communist Russia came together and started World War II. (more on: www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
, www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
)

sources

personal:
www.marianie.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19]
, www.katolicy.euClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19]

bibliographical:
Lexicon of Polish clergy repressed in USSR in 1939‐1988”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin
original images:
www.marianie.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19]
, www.marianie.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19]
, commons.wikimedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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, ipn.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
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