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St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

DRUŻBACKI

forename(s)

Nicholas (pl. Mikołaj)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Przemyśl diocesemore on
www.przemyska.pl
[access: 2013.02.15]

Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.12.20]

academic distinctions

Doctor of Canon Law

honorary titles

Expositorii Canonicalis canonmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]

Rochettum et Mantolettum canonmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]

Gold „Cross of Meritmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.04.16]

Eaglets” commemorative badgemore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.12.15]

Przemyśl Star
Badge of the 2nd Brigade of the Polish Legionsmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.03.15]

date and place
of death

11.09.1939

Lutsktoday: Lutsk city rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]

details of death

During World War I, a volunteer of the Eastern Legion, and after its dissolution on 21.09.1914, of the Polish Legions (3rd Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion, 1st Company, which after 08.05.1915 became part of the 2nd Legion Brigade under the command of General Joseph Haller). Participated in all the unit's battles: in the Carpathian mountains (1914), Bukovina (1915), Bessarabia (1916) and Volyn campaigns (1916‐1917).

After the oath crisis of 09‐11.07.1917, when most of the soldiers of the Polish Legions, on the recommendation of its supreme leader, Joseph Piłsudski, refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Kingdom of Poland (a puppet entity established by the German and Austro–Hungarian Empires) and to maintain brotherhood in arms with the troops of Germany and Austria–Hungary until end of World War I, left the Legions and returned to the Theological Seminary in Przemyśl.

On 03‐12.11.1918, with his bishop's consent, took part in the defense of Przemyśl attacked by Ukrainian bands. Then, after Poland regained independence on 11.11.1918, joined the Polish Army. As a firemaster in the 4th Battery of the 2nd Division of the 1st Artillery Regiment of Legions took part in the Polish–Ukrainian War of 1918‐1919, participating in the defense of Lviv, which on 22.11.1918‐22.05.1919 was besieged by the Ukrainians, and in the fighting in Eastern Lesser Poland. In 07.1919 returned to the Seminary… In 1920, during the Russian offensive during the Polish‐Russian war of 1919‐1921, Przemyśl remained in Polish hands...

After German invasion of Poland in 09.1939 (before Russian invasion) and start of the World War II helped the wounded during German aerial raids on Warsaw.

On 07.09.1939 left Warsaw together with his bishop Gawlina who accompanied, in accordance with the Field Ministry Regulations, the Army Commander of the Polish Armed Forces.

During an aerial bombing raid in Lutsk mortally wounded by shrapnel bombs.

German bomb fell onto the Lutsk bishop gardens, took his arm out and cut his head off.

cause of death

shelling (bombardment)

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

Air raids 1939Click to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description, Polish‐Ukrainian war of 1918‐1919Click to display the description

date and place
of birth

11.07.1895

Wieliczkatoday: Wieliczka gm., Wieliczka pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.06.07]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

22.05.1921 (Przemyśl cathedralmore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]
)

positions held

till 1939

chaplain — to Joseph Gawlina, the Field Bishop — also: secretary

till 1939

secretary — Field Curia, Polish Armed Forces — also: promoter of justice in the Military Bishop's Court

from 19.03.1939

senior chaplain — Polish Armed Forces — commissioned, in the rank of major

1937 – 1938

notary — Polish Armed Forces Field Curia

1936 – 1937

chaplain — Dęblintoday: Dęblin urban gm., Ryki pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Command of the Corps District DOK No. I Warsaw, Polish Armed Forces ⋄ St Michael the Archangel RC garrison church ⋄ St Pius V RC parish ⋄ Stężycatoday: Stężyca gm., Ryki pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.02]
RC deanery — also: chaplain of the Air Force Officer Training Center No. 1 and the Dęblin Garrison

from 01.05.1936

chaplain — Polish Armed Forces — commissioned, in the rank of captain

c. 1930 – c. 1936

administrator — Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ Blessed Virgin Mary of Perpetual Help RC parish ⋄ Przemyśl citydeanery name
today: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
RC deanery

c. 1930 – c. 1936

vicar — Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St John the Baptist RC cathedral church

c. 1930 – c. 1936

pro–synodal judge — Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ Bishop's Diocesan Court

1929 – 1930

prefect — Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ Theological Seminary — also: prefect at the Municipal School of Commerce

c. 1929 – c. 1930

notary — Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ Bishop's Diocesan Court

1928 – 1929

treasury officer / procurator — Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ Theological Institute

1927 – 1928

vicar — Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St John the Baptist RC cathedral church

1926 – 1927

apprentice — Rometoday: Rome prov., Lazio reg., Italy
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ legal service, Lat. „Sacra Congregazione del concilio” (Eng. „Congregation for the Causes of the Council”) and Lat. „Tribunal Rotae Romanae”, Roman Curia

1924 – 1926

PhD student — Rometoday: Rome prov., Lazio reg., Italy
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ „Angelicum[i.e. Lat. Pontificia Universitas Studiorum a Sancto Thoma Aquinate in Urbe (Eng. Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas) (today) / Lat. Pontificium Institutum Internationale (Eng. Pontifical International Institute) (1926‐1963) / Lat. Pontificium Collegium (Eng. Pontifical College) (1906‐1926) / Lat. Collegium (Eng. College) (until 1906)]

1924

notary — Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ Office, Diocesan Curia — also: notary of the Bishop's Diocesan Court

1923

secretary — Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ Office, Diocesan Curia — formally: notary II

1921 – 1922

vicar — Gorlicetoday: Gorlice gm., Gorlice pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Biecztoday: Biecz gm., Gorlice pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
RC deanery

1918 – 1919

soldier — Polish Armed Forces

1914 – 1917

soldier — Eastern Legion and Polish Legion's 2nd Brigade, Austro–Hungarian Imperial Army — in 1917 a „training course” in Zegrze (the 2nd brigade stayed there from 31.12.1916 to 05.1917917) — prob. mainly of German regulations, especially regarding drill and giving commands; resigned after the oath crisis of 05.1917

1913 – 1921

student — Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary — with breaks for military service during World War I: in the Polish Legions 1914‐1917 and in the Polish Army 1918‐1919

sites and events
descriptions

Air raids 1939: During invasion of Poland commenced on 01.09.1939 Germans systematically attacked civilian targets. Many cities (Wieluń, Frampol, Warszawa, Lwów, Łomża, Puck, etc.) were bombed during air raids and totally destroyed. The hospitals and churches, visibly marked as such, were not spared. German planes also attacked columns of fleeing people on the roads, massacring them. It is estimated that c. 150,000‐200,000 civilians were killed or murdered by the Germans in 09.1939. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.04.18]
)

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]
)

Polish‐Ukrainian war of 1918‐1919: One of the wars for borders of the newly reborn Poland. At the end of 1918 on the former Austro‐Hungarian empire’s territory, based on the Ukrainian military units of the former Austro‐Hungarian army, Ukrainians waged war against Poland. In particular attempted to create foundation of an independent state and attacked Lviv. Thanks to heroic stance of Lviv inhabitants, in particular young generation of Poles — called since then Lviv eaglets — the city was recaptured by Poles and for a number of months successfully defended against furious Ukrainian attacks. In 1919 Poland — its newly created army — pushed Ukrainian forces far to the east and south, regaining control over its territory. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2017.05.20]
)

sources

personal:
www.duszki.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
, www.ordynariat.wp.mil.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
, archiwum-ordynariat.wp.mil.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.03.15]
, ordynariat.wp.mil.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.03.14]

bibliographical:
Register of Latin rite Lviv metropolis clergy’s losses in 1939‐45”, Józef Krętosz, Maria Pawłowiczowa, editors, Opole, 2005
Biographical lexicon of Lviv Roman Catholic Metropoly clergy victims of the II World War 1939‐1945”, Mary Pawłowiczowa (ed.), Fr Joseph Krętosz (ed.), Holy Cross Publishing, Opole, 2007
Schematismus Venerabilis Cleri Dioecesis PremisliensisClick to display source page”, Przemyśl diocesa Curia, from 1866 to 1938
original images:
ordynariat.wp.mil.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.03.14]
, www.miejscapamiecinarodowej.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.08.14]
, www.katedrapolowa.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.01.16]

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