Roman Catholic
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)
personal data
religious status
blessed
surname
KOWALIK
forename(s)
Zeno (pl. Zenon)
forename(s)
versions/aliases
Zenobius (pl. Zenobiusz)
beatification date
27.06.2001more on
www.swzygmunt.knc.pl
[access: 2013.05.19]
John Paul IImore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]
function
religious cleric
creed
Ukrainian Greek Catholicmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]
congregation
Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists - CSsR)more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]
nationality
Ukrainian
date and place of death
28.06.1941
Lvivtoday: Lviv city rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.16]
details of death
In 1935 forced by Polish authorities to leave Volyn and stop missionary activities among Orthodox Christians.
After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the II World War, after start of Russian occupation, arrested by the Russians on 20.12.1940.
Held in Brygidki prison in Lviv.
Accused of espionage.
Repeatedly interrogated and tortured. Murdered after German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russians, murdered prob. in Zamarstynów prison — Russians prior to their escape were to nail him to the prison cell wall and put an unborn child into his cut open belly.
cause of death
mass murder
perpetrators
Russians
date and place of birth
18.08.1903
Ivachiv Horishnytoday: Ternopil rai., Ternopil obl., Ukraine
religious vows
28.08.1926 (temporary)
28.08.1929 (permanent)
presbyter (holy orders)/
ordination
09.08.1932
positions held
others related in death
BAŁUTClick to display biography Anthony (Fr Roman), BANSZELClick to display biography Charles, BUCZYŃSKIClick to display biography Joseph, CZEMERYŃSKIClick to display biography Yaroslav, KAŹNICAClick to display biography Monica, KNYSZClick to display biography Stephen, KONOPKAClick to display biography Casimir Stanislaus, MARCHIEWICZClick to display biography Francis (Fr Michael), PISKOZUBClick to display biography Julia
murder sites
camps (+ prisoner no)
Lviv (Zamarstiniv): Penal prison no 2 in Lviv. In 1939‑41 Russians organised there an NKVD detention centre and jailed thousands of prisoners, mainly Poles and Ukrainians, interrogating them and torturing. In 06.1941 after German invasion Russians murdered few thousands of them in a mass massacre. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30])
Lviv (Brygidki): Penal prison. In 1939‑41 Russians kept thousands of prisoners, mainly Poles. In 06.1941 after German invasion Russians murdered few thousands of them in a mass massacre. In 1941‑4 the prison was run by the Germans. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.09.21])
06.1941 massacres (NKVD): After German attack of Russian‑occupied Polish territory and following that of Russia itself, before a panic escape, Russians murdered — in accordance with the genocidal order issued on 24.06.1941 by the Russian interior minister Lawrence Beria to murder all prisoners (formally „sentenced for counter–revolutionary activities', anti–Russian acts', sabotage and diversion, and political prisoners 'in custody'), held in NKVD‑run prisons in Russian occupied Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — c. 40,000‑50,000 prisoners. In addition Russians murdered many thousands of victims arrested after German attack regarding them as „enemies of people” — those victims were not even entered into prisons’ registers. Most of them were murdered in massacres in the prisons themselves, the others during so‑called „death marches” when the prisoners were driven out east. After Russians departure and start of German occupation a number of spontaneous pogroms of Jews took place. Many Jews collaborated with Russians and were regarded as co‑responsible for prison massacres. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19])
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 II World War 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
[access: 2015.09.30])
sources
personal:
old.cssr.lviv.uaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.12.26], pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19],
original images:
www.cssr.lviv.uaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30], www.redemptorist.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30], photo-lviv.in.uaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.12.26], uk.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30], photo-lviv.in.uaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.12.26], www.catholic.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30], old.cssr.lviv.uaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.12.26], commons.wikimedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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