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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

HŁADZIO

forename(s)

Steven (pl. Stefan)

religious forename(s)

Silvester (pl. Sylwester)

religious forename(s)
versions/aliases

Seraphim (pl. Serafin)

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function

laybrother

creed

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

congregation

Order of Capuchin Friars Minor OFMCapmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

(i.e. Capuchins)

diocese / province

Warsaw province OFMcapmore on
www.kapucyni.pl
[access: 2014.08.18]

nationality

Ukrainian

date and place
of death

07.1943

Liubeshivtoday: Liubeshiv hrom., Kamin–Kashyrskyi rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.11.12]

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile allies, Russians, and start of German occupation, during «Genocidium Atrox» — the genocide perpetrated by Ukrainians, known as „Volyn genocide” — persecuted and threatened by his Ukrainian kin went into hiding outside the monastery.

Discovered was taken to the monastery and there murdered by the genocidal Ukrainian organization OUN/UPA.

In monastery's basement was being forced to convert to Orthodoxy — firmly refused and had his head smashed prob. by an axe over the altar he dearly held to till the last.

Later 2 habitless nuns where also gang raped and murdered.

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Ukrainians

date and place
of birth

25.05.1909

Leszczynytoday: Fredropol gm., Przemyśl pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of birth

21.05.1909

religious vows

25.03.1936 (temporary)
29.03.1939 (permanent)

positions held

1936 – 1943

friar — Liubeshivtoday: Liubeshiv hrom., Kamin–Kashyrskyi rai., Volyn, Ukraine
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⋄ St Ciril and St Methodius monastery, Capuchins OFMCap — monastery cook

1935 – 25.03.1936

novitiate — Nowe Miasto nad Pilicątoday: Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą gm., Grójec pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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⋄ St Casimir the Prince and Confessor monastery, Capuchins OFMCap

24.03.1935

accession — Nowe Miasto nad Pilicątoday: Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą gm., Grójec pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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⋄ St Casimir the Prince and Confessor monastery, Capuchins OFMCap

1934 – 1935

postulate — Liubeshivtoday: Liubeshiv hrom., Kamin–Kashyrskyi rai., Volyn, Ukraine
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⋄ St Ciril and St Methodius monastery, Capuchins OFMCap

others related
in death

GANOClick to display biography Hedwig (Sr Mary Aloise), OSSAKOWSKAClick to display biography Mary (Sr Andrew), BORRELClick to display biography John (Fr of the Incarnation), CZECHOWICZClick to display biography Joseph (Fr Cassian)

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«Genocidium Atrox»: In 1939‑1947, especially in 1943‑1944, independent Ukrainian units, mainly belonging to genocidal Ukrainian organizations OUN (political arm) and UPA (military arm), supported by local Ukrainian population, murdered — often in extremely brutal way — in Volyn and surrounding regions of pre‑war Poland, from 130,000 to 180,000 Poles, all civilians: men, women, children, old and young. Polish–Ukrainian conflict that openly emerged during and after World War I (in particular resulting in Polish–Ukrainian war of 1918‑1919), that survived and even deepened later when western Ukraine became a part Poland, exploded again after the outbreak of the World War II in 09.1939. During Russian occupation of 1939‑1941, when hundreds of thousands of Poles were deported into central Russia, when tens of thousands were murdered (during so‑called Katyń massacres, among others), this open conflict had a limited character, helped by the fact that at that time Ukrainians, Ukrainian nationalists in particular, were also persecuted by the Russians. The worst came after German–Russian war started on 22.06.1941 and German occupation resulted. Initially Ukrainians supported Germans (Ukrainian police was initiated, Ukrainians co—participated in extermination of the Jews and were joining army units fighting alongside Germans). Later when German ambivalent position towards Ukraine became apparent Ukrainians started acting independently. And in 1943 one of the units of aforementioned Ukrainian OUN/UPA organization, in Volyn, started and perpetrated a genocide of Polish population of this region. In mere few weeks OUN/UPA murdered, with Germans passively watching on the sidelines, more than 40,000 Poles. This strategy was consequently approved and adopted by all OUN/UPA organisations and similar genocides took place in Eastern Lesser Poland (part of Ukraine) where more than 20,000 Poles were slaughtered, meeting however with growing resistance from Polish population. Further west, in Chełm, Rzeszów, etc. regions this genocide turned into an extremely bloody conflict. In general genocide, perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists, partly collaborating with German occupants, on vulnerable Polish population took part in hundreds of villages and small towns, where virtually all Polish inhabitants were wiped out. More than 200 priests, religious and nuns perished in this holocaust — known as «Genocidium Atrox» (Eng. „savage genocide”) The nature and purpose of genocide is perhaps best reflected in the song sung by the murderers: „We will slaughter the Poles, we will cut down the Jews, we must conquer the great Ukraine” (ukr. „Поляків виріжем, Євреїв видусим, велику Україну здобути мусим”). This holocaust and conflict ended up in total elimination of Polish population and Polish culture from Ukraine, in enforced deportations in 1944‑1945 of remaining Poles from Ukraine and some Ukrainians into Ukraine proper, and finally in deportation of Ukrainians from East‑South to the Western parts of Polish republic prl by Commie‑Nazi Russian controlled Polish security forces („Vistula Action”). (more on: www.swzygmunt.knc.plClick 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 Stanislaus 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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bibliographical:
A martyrology of Polish clergy under German occupation, 1939‑1945”, Fr Szołdrski Vladislaus CSSR, Rome 1965
Mysterium iniquitatis. Clergy and religious of the Latin rite murdered by Ukrainian nationalists in 1939‑1945”, Fr Józef Marecki, Institute of National Remembrance IPN, Kraków 2020
Fr John Fibek OFMCap, private correspondence, 16.12.2023

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