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Roman Catholic
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

PIANKO

surname
versions/aliases

PIANKA

forename(s)

Peter (pl. Piotr)

  • PIANKO Peter - Commemorative cross, murder site, parish house, Szumowo, source: www.bagnowka.com, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOPIANKO Peter
    Commemorative cross, murder site, parish house, Szumowo
    source: www.bagnowka.com
    own collection
  • PIANKO Peter - Commemorative plaque for priests and seminarians from Łomża diocese who perished in 1939-45, cathedral, Łomża-45, cathedral, Łomża, source: own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOPIANKO Peter
    Commemorative plaque for priests and seminarians from Łomża diocese who perished in 1939-45, cathedral, Łomża-45, cathedral, Łomża
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    Commemorative plaque for priests and seminarians from Łomża diocese who perished in 1939-45, cathedral, Łomża
    source: own collection
  • PIANKO Peter - Commemorative plaque for priests and seminarians from Łomża diocese who perished in 1939-45, cathedral, Łomża, source: own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOPIANKO Peter
    Commemorative plaque for priests and seminarians from Łomża diocese who perished in 1939-45, cathedral, Łomża
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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Łomża diocesemore on
www.kuria.lomza.pl
[access: 2012.11.23]

Sejny diocesemore on
www.catholic-hierarchy.org
[access: 2021.12.19]

academic distinctions

Sacred Theology MA

honorary titles

Minor Canonmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]
(Sejny collegiate)

date and place
of death

04.09.1941

Szumowotoday: Szumowo gm., Zambrów pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.28]

alt. dates and places
of death

03.09.1941

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 following German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russia, murdered by a drunken German soldiers, in front of his rectory, still in his vestments, after refusing to announce publicly the new German orders about giving up of all weapons and denouncing any Russian soldiers still in hiding, and for siding with and helping the Jews — together with Fr Alexander Łuniewski.

alt. details of death

According to other source murdered during the raid on his rectory by drunken German soldiers in search of alcohol or valuables.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

Help to the JewsClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

25.01.1888

Grądytoday: Nowogród gm., Łomża pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.28]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

07.09.1913

positions held

1940 – 1941

administrator — Szumowotoday: Szumowo gm., Zambrów pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ St Anthony of Padua RC parish ⋄ Śniadowotoday: Śniadowo gm., Łomża pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.06]
RC deanery

1922 – c. 1939

professor — Łomżatoday: Łomża city pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ Theological Seminary — lecturer in moral theology, catechetics and pedagogy; also: c. 1922‐1924 spiritual director

1926 – c. 1939

canon of the chapter — Sejnytoday: Sejny urban gm., Sejny pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ Collegiate Chapter ⋄ Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC collegiate church

c. 1927

prefect — Łomżatoday: Łomża city pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ Teachers' Seminary For Women

c. 1922 – 1925

vicar — Łomżatoday: Łomża city pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ St Michael the Archangel RC pro–cathedral church ⋄ Łomżatoday: Łomża city pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.28]
RC deanery — also: prefect of elementary schools

1921 – c. 1939

member of managment board — Łomżatoday: Łomża city pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ Diocesan Curia — i.a. defender of the marriage bond (c. 1922‐1939), promoter of justice (c. 1928‐1939), chancellor (c. 1922)

prefect — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]

from c. 1912

student — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Imperial Roman Catholic Spiritual Academy (1842‐1918) — postgraduate specialised studies crowned with a Sacred Theology Master's degree

till c. 1912

student — Sejnytoday: Sejny urban gm., Sejny pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

others related
in death

ŁUNIEWSKIClick to display biography Alexander

sites and events
descriptions

Help to the Jews: During World War II on the Polish occupied territories Germans forbid to give any support to the Jews under penalty of death. Hundreds of Polish priests and religious helped the Jews despite this official sanction. Many of them were caught and murdered.

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:
www.glaukopis.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
, www.straty.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.04.16]
, www.polska1918-89.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.10.13]
, mazowsze.hist.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.02]

original images:
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[access: 2016.03.14]

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