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

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surname

FIC

forename(s)

Urban

religious forename(s)

Atanasius (pl. Atanazy)

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    Dominican Fathers' Tomb, Łyczaków Cemetery, Lviv
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function

religious cleric

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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congregation

Order of Preachers OPmore on
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[access: 2013.07.06]

(i.e. Dominican Order, Dominicans)

diocese / province

St Hyacinth Polish Province
St Hyacinth Galicia Province OP
Lviv archdiocesemore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]

academic distinctions

Habilitation Doctor of Bible Science
Doctor of Theology

date and place
of death

13.11.1943

Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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alt. dates and places
of death

02.11.1943

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the II World found himself in the part occupied by the Germans, in General Governorate.

Lectured in the clandestine theological seminaries network in Kraków.

After 22.06.1941, when the Germans attacked their erstwhile ally, Russians, and German occupation started in Lviv — visisted Lviv.

There perished during the aerial bombardment or in an unfortunate accident on the main town square.

cause of death

shelling (bombardment)

perpetrators

Russians (?)

sites and events

GeneralgouvernementClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

21.05.1901

Nowa Wieś Szlacheckatoday: Czernichów gm., Kraków pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

02.07.1925 (Louvaintoday: Flemish Brabant prov., Flemish reg., Belgium
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)

positions held

1939 – 1943

professor — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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⋄ Philosophical and Theological Studies, Holy Trinity monastery, Dominicans OP — lecturer in biblical studies; also a lecturer at the Theological Seminaries of the Diocese of Kraków and Częstochowa and the College of the Salvatorian Society in Kraków–Zakrzówek

1936 – 1939

professor — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ Department of Theology, John Casimir University [i.e. clandestine John Casimir University (1941‐1944) / Ivan Franko University (1940‐1941) / John Casimir University (1919‐1939) / Franciscan University (1817‐1918)] — lecturer in Old Testament exegesis and biblical archaeology

1936 – 1939

prior — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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⋄ Corpus Christi monastery, Dominicans OP

1933 – 1936

professor — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ Department of Theology, Jagiellonian University UJ — lecturer in biblical archeology

1933

postdoctoral degree (habilitation) — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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⋄ Department of Theology, Jagiellonian University UJ — habilitation thesis „Zion, the city of David in the light of texts and excavations. An archaeological and biblical study”), publ. Lviv 1933

1930 – 1936

rector — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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⋄ Philosophical and Theological Studies, Corpus Christi monastery, Dominicans OP — also: professor of biblical exegesis, archeology, eastern languages (i.a. Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Arabic) and English language

1927 – 1930

student — Jerusalemtoday: Jerusalem dist., Israel
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[access: 2022.09.31]
⋄ French Biblical and Archeological School (Lat. École Biblique et Archéologique Française) — post‐doctoral studies

till 1929

PhD student — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ Department of Theology, John Casimir University [i.e. clandestine John Casimir University (1941‐1944) / Ivan Franko University (1940‐1941) / John Casimir University (1919‐1939) / Franciscan University (1817‐1918)] — PhD thesis Lat. „Critica ac analisis P. S. Francisci Stufler SJ de caritate Dei” (Eng. „Criticism and analysis of the works of P. S. Francis Stufler SJ on the subject of God's mercy”), public defense on 09.03.1929

1923 – 1927

student — Louvaintoday: Flemish Brabant prov., Flemish reg., Belgium
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[access: 2020.11.07]
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Université Catholique de Louvain (pl. Catholic University of Leuven)

1920 – 1923

student — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ Philosophical and Theological Studies, Corpus Christi monastery, Dominicans OP

1917

accession — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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⋄ Holy Trinity monastery, Dominicans OP

writer and publicist — author of i.a. „Jesus Christ”, i.e. vol. I „Secrets of Childhood”, Poznań 1951, vol. II Poznań 1952, III, Poznań 1955 (posthumous editions); many articles, including in „Priestly Athenaeum” („Beyond Jordan and Rocky Arabia”, 1929; „From a Journey to the Seven Churches of Asia”, 1930), „Biblical Review

from 1935

membership — Polish Prehistoric Society

from 1935

membership — Prehistoric Society, Polish Academy of Learning

from 1934

membership — Polish Orientalist Society

membership — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ scientific society

sites and events
descriptions

Generalgouvernement: After the Polish defeat in the 09.1939 campaign, which was the result of the Ribbentrop‐Molotov Pact and constituted the first stage of World War II, and the beginning of German occupation in part of Poland (in the other, eastern part of Poland, the Russian occupation began), the Germans divided the occupied Polish territory into five main regions. In two of them new German provinces were created, two other were incorporated into other provinces. However, the fifth part was treated separately, and in a political sense it was supposed to recreate the German idea from 1915 (during World War I, after the defeat of the Russians in the Battle of Gorlice in 05.1915) of creating a Polish enclave within Germany. Illegal in the sense of international law, i.e. Hague Convention, and public law, managed by the Germans according to separate laws — especially established for the Polish Germ. Untermenschen (Eng. subhumans) — till the Russian offensive in 1945 it constituted the Germ. Großdeutschland (Eng. Greater Germany). Till 31.07.1940 formally called Germ. Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete (Eng. General Government for the occupied Polish lands) — later simply Germ. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate), as in the years 1915‐1918. From 07.1941, i.e. after the German attack on 22.06.1941 against the erstwhile ally, the Russians, it also included the Galicia district, i.e. the Polish pre‐war south‐eastern voivodeships. A special criminal law was enacted and applied to Poles and Jews, allowing for the arbitrary administration of the death penalty regardless of the age of the „perpetrator”, and sanctioning the use of collective responsibility. After the end of the military conflict of the World War UU, the government of the Germ. Generalgouvernement was recognized as a criminal organization, and its leader, governor Hans Frank, guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and executed. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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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
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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
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sources

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, bazhum.muzhp.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2022.11.20]

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