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

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

GZIK

forename(s)

Francis (pl. Franciszek)

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    Tombstone, Jeruzalem cemetery, Racibórz
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    Commemorative plaque, military field cathedral, Warsaw
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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Lublin diocesemore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

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

honorary titles

Cross of National Armed Actions

date and place
of death

14.06.1951

Racibórztoday: Racibórz urban gm., Racibórz pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.02]

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start of German occupation, unable to return to continue his theology studies settled in family house in Potok Wielki.

There collaborated with Polish clandestine resistance National Armed Forces NSZ.

In 1943 in Nowy Sącz was clandestinely ordained by Bp Marian Fulman, deported there by the Germans from his diocese.

After end of World War II hostilities and start of Russian occupation organized in 08/09.1948 a pilgrimage of his Komarów parishioners to Częstochowa / Jasna Góra Marian shrine with a prayer „For free Poland”.

Arrested during the night of 08‐09.02.1949 in Mircze parish by Commie‐Nazi UB, a unit of Russian NKVD functioning in Russian–controlled prl state.

Accused of „depravity towards underage girls”.

Jailed in Hrubieszów prison and — later — in UB station at Krótka Str. in Lublin.

On 24.07.1949 moved to Lublin castle prison.

On 07.02.1950 (according to some sources on 09.09.1949) sentenced by a Commie‐Nazi Regional Court in Lublin to 10 years in prison.

On 14.10.1950 moved to Racibórz prison.

There forced to sign depositions against Polish Catholic church's Episcopate.

There also, in Commie‐Nazi party offices on Ogrodowa Str. in Racibórz, murdered by UB officers.

alt. details of death

According to some sources after half a year imprisonment in Lublin Castle prison forced by Commie‐Nazi UB to slave in Racibórz mines, where perished for exhaustion and illnesses.

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Russians / Poles

sites and events

Lublin (Castle)Click to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

28.06.1915

Potok Wielkitoday: Potok Wielki gm., Janów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]

alt. dates and places
of birth

02.12.1914

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

29.06.1943 (Nowy Sącztoday: Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
)

positions held

1949

administrator — Mirczetoday: Mircze gm., Hrubieszów pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.29]
⋄ Our Lord's Resurrection RC parish ⋄ Tyszowcetoday: Tyszowce gm., Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.09.24]
RC deanery

1948 – 1949

vicar — Komarówtoday: Komarów‐Osada, Komarów‐Osada gm., Zamość pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Tomaszów Lubelskitoday: Tomaszów Lubelski gm., Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
RC deanery

1946 – 1948

vicar — Tarnogóratoday: Izbica gm., Krasnystaw pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
⋄ St Sophie RC parish ⋄ Krasnystawtoday: Krasnystaw urban gm., Krasnystaw pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.12.03]
RC deanery

1944 – 1946

vicar — Urzędówtoday: Urzędów gm., Kraśnik pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
⋄ St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor RC parish ⋄ Kraśniktoday: Kraśnik urban gm., Kraśnik pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
RC deanery — prefect

1943 – 1944

vicar — Dzierzkowicetoday: Dzierzkowice‐Rynek, Dzierzkowice gm., Kraśnik pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
⋄ St Stanislav the Bishop and Martyr and St Mary Magdalene RC parish ⋄ Kraśniktoday: Kraśnik urban gm., Kraśnik pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
RC deanery

till 1939

student — Lublintoday: Lublin city pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

sites and events
descriptions

Lublin (Castle): German penal and detention centre. Approx. 40,000 Poles were kept there prior to transport to German concentration camps. After German expulsion in 1944 Russian prison and next prison run by UB, Polish branch of Russian NKVD where thousands of members of clandestine resistance Home Army AK, part of Polish Clandestine State, and National Armed Forces NSZ where jailed, tortured and murdered (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30]
)

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:
nsz.com.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.02.15]
, raciborz.naszemiasto.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.02.15]
, gokurzedow.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.06.05]

bibliographical:
Lexicon of the clergy vicimised in prl in 1945‐1989”, collective work edited by Jerzy Myszor, Warsaw, 2002
original images:
www.parafiakomarow.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.08.14]
, gokurzedow.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.06.05]
, gokurzedow.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.06.05]
, gokurzedow.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.06.05]
, www.nowiny.rybnik.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.01.28]

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