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

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surname

KRYGIER

surname
versions/aliases

KRYGER

forename(s)

Mieczyslav (pl. Mieczysław)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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diocese / province

Warsaw archdiocesemore on
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honorary titles

Rochettum et Mantolettum canonmore on
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[access: 2014.11.14]

War Order of Virtuti Militarimore on
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[access: 2019.10.13]

date and place
of death

05.08.1944

Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of death

06.08.1944

details of death

In 1918, after rebirth of Polish state, joined Polish Army as volunteer.

Took part — as chaplain — in Polish–Russian war of 1919‑1921.

From 01.06.1919 reserve chaplain of Polish Army.

After German invasion of Poland on 01.09.1939 (Russians invaded Poland 17 days later) and start of the World War II chaplain–volunteer of 8th company of 40th Lviv Children Infantry Regiment of Polish Army.

Participant of Warsaw defense.

During German occupation chaplain of Polish resistance Home Army AK (part of Polish Clandestine State).

During the Warsaw Uprising, after bringing bread and coffee to the insurgents occupying the tower of the St Lawrence parish church in Wola, returned to the sacristy and began celebrating the Holy Mass.

During it, the Germans burst into the church and opened fire on the gathered people.

First, the sexton fell, and the priest was seriously injured — fell at the foot of the altar, received Holy Communion.

and died.

Together with him, 40 AK soldiers perished that day.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

24.05.1888

Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of birth

24.03.1888, 28.05.1888

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1910

positions held

1934 – 1944

parish priest — WarsawWola district
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland

more on
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⋄ St Lawrence RC parish ⋄ Warsaw–in–urbedeanery name
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
RC deanery

chaplain — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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⋄ St John of God Hospital

till 1944

director — „Caritas” Charity Society

membership — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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Lat. „Consilium a Vigilantiae” (Eng. „Committee on Morals”), Metropolitan Curia

councillor — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]

c. 1922 – 1934

parish priest — WarsawPowązki neighborhood
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland

more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ St Josaphat RC parish ⋄ Warsaw–in–urbedeanery name
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
RC deanery — also: dean (chaplain) of the Military Cemetery in Warsaw

from c. 1919

priest — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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⋄ RC military parish

c. 1916 – c. 1919

chaplain — Otwocktoday: Otwock urban gm., Otwock pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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⋄ branch, St John of God hospital (in Warsaw)

c. 1918 – c. 1919

vicar — Kamieńczyktoday: Wyszków gm., Wyszków pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.03.16]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Radzymintoday: Radzymin gm., Wołomin pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.01.10]
RC deanery — formal posting, resident in Otwock

c. 1916 – c. 1917

vicar — Łowicztoday: Łowicz urban gm., Łowicz pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor RC collegiate parish ⋄ Łowicztoday: Łowicz urban gm., Łowicz pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery — formal posting, resident in Otwock

1910 – c. 1912

vicar — Warsawregion known as „Leszno” (around Leszno Str.)
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland

more on
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⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Warsaw–in–urbedeanery name
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
RC deanery — also: in c. 1912 chaplain of the Warsaw archbishop

c. 1906 – 1910

student — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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⋄ philosophy and theology, Metropolitan Theological Seminary

activist — social

others related
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Wola district massacres: Mass extermination of the inhabitants of Warsaw Wola and Ochota districts, perpetrated by the Germans in the first days of Warsaw Uprising. Approx. 38,000‑65,000 Poles, men, women and children were massacred (the peak of the barbarian killings took place on 05‑07.08.1944). The massacre — genocide in fact — was in direct response to Adolf Hitler’s order to crash and destroy Warsaw and kill all of its citizens and was perpetrated by German SS units and Russian SS RONA units (with Belarusian contingent) collaborating with them. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19]
)

Warsaw Uprising: Lasted from 01.08.1944 till 03.10.1944. Was an attempt to liberate Polish capital from occupying Germans by the Polish Clandestine State — a unique in the history of the world political structure on the territories occupied by the Germans, effectively governing clandestinely in Poland — and by fighting on its behalf underground military units, mainly of Home Army (former Armed Struggle Association ZWZ) and National Armed Forced (NSZ). At the same time Russians stopped on purpose the offensive on all front, halted on the other bank of Vistula river and watched calmly the annihilation of the city, refusing even the mid–landing rights to the Allied planes carrying weapons and supplies to the insurgents from Italy. During the Uprising Germans murdered approx. 200,000 Poles, mainly civilians. Approx. 200 priests and nuns died in fighting or were murdered by the Germans, many in mass executions. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17]
)

General Governorate: A separate administrative territorial region set up by the Germans in 1939 after defeat of Poland, which included German‑occupied part of Polish territory that was not directly incorporate into German state. Created as the result of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, in a political sense, was to recreate the German idea of 1915 (after the defeat of the Russians in the Battle of Gorlice in 05.1915 during World War I) of establishing a Polish enclave within Germany (also called the General Governorate at that time). It was run by the Germans till 1945 and final Russian offensive, and was a part of so–called Big Germany — Grossdeutschland. Till 31.07.1940 formally known as Germ. Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete (Eng. General Governorate for occupied Polish territories) — later as simply niem. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate). From 07.1941 expanded to include district Galicia. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.12.04]
)

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
[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
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Polish-Russian war of 1919—1921: War for independence of Poland and its borders. Poland regained independence in 1918 but had to fight for its borders with former imperial powers, in particular Russia. Russia planned to incite Bolshevik–like revolutions in the Western Europe and thus invaded Poland. Russian invaders were defeated in 08.1920 in a battle called Warsaw battle („Vistula river miracle”, one of the 10 most important battles in history, according to some historians). Thanks to this victory Poland recaptured part of the lands lost during partitions of Poland in XVIII century, and Europe was saved from the genocidal Communism. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20]
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