function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

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

date and place
of death

30.01.1954

Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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details of death

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Russians / Poles

sites and events

Trial of 21‐26.01.1953Click to display the description, Cracow (Montelupich)Click to display the description

date and place
of birth

16.01.1915

Rabkatoday: Rabka‐Zdrój, Rabka‐Zdrój gm., Nowy Targ pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

23.03.1940 (Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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positions held

sites and events
descriptions

Trial of 21‐26.01.1953: A show trial of 4 priests from Cracow Metropolitan Curia (one, Fr Joseph Fudali, was excluded due to a state of health after tortures in prison) and 3 civilians accused of made‐up charges of treason and collaboration with Vatican. Three of the accused, including Fr Joseph Lelito, Commie‐Nazi court sentenced to death, and the remaining four to long‐terms imprisonment. Shameful and murderous role was played out by Polish „luminaries”, 53 „intellectuals” (among them Wisława Szymborska, future Nobel laureate, Sławomir Mrożek, Anne Świrszczyńska, and many others) who in a resolution the Union of Polish Writers in Cracow condemned the sentenced victims. Resolution i.a. stated: „We express absolute condemnation of the traitors to the Homeland who, taking advantage of their spiritual positions […] practiced — for American money — espionage and sabotage. We condemn those dignitaries from the higher church hierarchy who supported anti‐Polish machinations and […] destroyed valuable cultural monuments […] We commit ourselves in our work to take up current problems of the fight for socialism even more aggressively and insightfully than before and to stigmatize the enemies of the nation more sharply”. Fr Fudali perished in prison, Fr Wit Brzuski, tortured, soon after release. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.28])

Cracow (Montelupich): Cracow penal prison, during occupation run by the Germans — from 28.02.1941 by Germ. Geheime Staatspolizei (Eng. Secret State Police, known as Gestapo. In 1940‐1944 Germans jailed there approx. 50,000 prisoners, mainly Poles and Jews. Some of them were transported to KL Auschwitz concentration camp, some were executed. After cease in war effort the prison was used by UB — a Polish unit of Russian NKVD — as a prison for Polish independence resistance fighters, some of which were subsequently sent to prisons and slave labour camps in Russia. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.31])

sources

personal:
mtrojnar.rzeszow.opoka.org.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19]
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www.facebook.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.18], mtrojnar.rzeszow.opoka.org.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.28], mtrojnar.rzeszow.opoka.org.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.28]