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St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
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Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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religious status

Servant of God

surname

PUCIATA

forename(s)

Leo (pl. Leon)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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diocese / province

Vilnius archdiocesemore on
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Vilnius diocesemore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]

academic distinctions

Habilitation Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Theology
Doctor of Philosophy
Sacred Theology Candidate

date and place
of death

12.07.1943

Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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details of death

During the partitions of Poland, without the permission of the occupational authorities of tsarist Russia, left for Rome and under the assumed name of Alois Jung, completed his theological studies and then defended two doctorates.

After his return to Vilnius, the tsarist authorities refused to accept him for the position of professor at the Vilnius Theological Seminary (despite the fact that he had the title of Candidate of Theology obtained at the Theological Academy in Saint Petersburg).

Was allowed to work in the Seminary only during World War I, after the Russian defeat in the Battle of Gorlice in 05.1915, and the start of the German occupation.

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, during Lithuanian (from 1939), Russian (after annexation on 15.06.1940 of Lithuania by Russians) and German (after German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russians) occupation academic educator in clandestine university in Vilnius (after closure of Steven Batory University on 15.12.1939 by Lithuanians) and in Theological Seminary in Vilnius (part of emerging Polish Clandestine State).

During German occupation helped persecuted Jews.

Arrested by the Germans on 03.03.1942 together with other professors of Vilnius Theological Seminary and kept in Lukiškės in Vilnius and from 19.03.1942 in Vilkaviškis prisons and next from 17.10.1942 in IL Šaltupis concentration camp.

Released on 31.03.1943, totally exhausted and sick.

Perish soon after of cancer and exhaustion.

cause of death

exhaustion

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

IL ŠaltupisClick to display the description, Vilnius (Lukiškės)Click to display the description, 03.03.1942 arrests (Vilnius)Click to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

21.07.1884

Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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alt. dates and places
of birth

08.07.1884

Gruzdovoform.: Oborek‐Hruzdowo
today: Polochany ssov., Maladzyechna dist., Minsk reg., Belarus

more on
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

25.08.1911 (Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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)

positions held

1914 – 1942

parish priest — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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⋄ St Anne RC parish ⋄ Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.01.06]
RC deanery

1935 – 1939

supernumerary professor — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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⋄ Department of Theology, Stephen Batory University [i.e. Vilnius University (from 1945) / some faculties acting clandestinely (1939‐1945) / closed by Lithuanians (1939) / Stephen Batory University (1919‐1939)] — dogmatic theology

till c. 1939

membership — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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Lat. „Commissio mixta pro conservatione antiquitatum ecclesiarum” (Eng. „Mixed committee for the preservation of the antique churches”), Archdiocesan Curia

till c. 1939

membership — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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Lat. „Consilium artisticum pro reparandis, aedificandis ornanoisque ecclesiis” (Eng. „Artistic council for the repair, construction and ornamentation of the churches”), Archdiocesan Curia

1932

postdoctoral degree (habilitation) — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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⋄ John Casimir University [i.e. clandestine John Casimir University (1941‐1944) / Ivan Franko University (1940‐1941) / John Casimir University (1919‐1939) / Franciscan University (1817‐1918)]

from 1927

deputy professor — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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⋄ Department of Theology, Stephen Batory University [i.e. Vilnius University (from 1945) / some faculties acting clandestinely (1939‐1945) / closed by Lithuanians (1939) / Stephen Batory University (1919‐1939)] — dogmatic theology

from 1923

deputy professor — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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⋄ Department of Theology, Stephen Batory University [i.e. Vilnius University (from 1945) / some faculties acting clandestinely (1939‐1945) / closed by Lithuanians (1939) / Stephen Batory University (1919‐1939)] — pastoral theology

from 1922

lector — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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⋄ Italian language, Department of Humanities, Stephen Batory University [i.e. Vilnius University (from 1945) / some faculties acting clandestinely (1939‐1945) / closed by Lithuanians (1939) / Stephen Batory University (1919‐1939)]

membership — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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⋄ Friends of Sciences Society

editor — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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⋄ „Theological Studies

from 1917

professor — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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⋄ Theological Seminary — history of Church art and the German language

prefect — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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⋄ gymnasium, Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth CSFN

prefect — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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⋄ Polish Teachers's Association gymnasium

from 1917

head/manager — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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⋄ Men's Teachers' Seminary

1915 – 1918

secretary — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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⋄ Church Affairs Committee, Diocesan Curia — during World War I, during the German occupation

1911 – 1914

vicar — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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⋄ St Francis and St Bernard RC parish ⋄ Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.01.06]
RC deanery

till 1912

student — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ theology, Imperial Roman Catholic Spiritual Academy (1842‐1918) — postgraduate specialised studies, crowned a Sacred Theology Candidate degree

till 1911

PhD student — Rometoday: Rome prov., Lazio reg., Italy
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ theology, „Gregorianum[i.e. Lat. Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana (Eng. Pontifical Gregorian University)] — resident: Pontifical Roman German and Hungarian College (Lat. Pontificium Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum de Urbe), known as „Collegium Germanicum

till 1907

PhD student — Rometoday: Rome prov., Lazio reg., Italy
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ philosophy, „Gregorianum[i.e. Lat. Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana (Eng. Pontifical Gregorian University)] — resident: Pontifical Roman German and Hungarian College (Lat. Pontificium Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum de Urbe), known as „Collegium Germanicum

from 1904

student — Rometoday: Rome prov., Lazio reg., Italy
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⋄ philosophy and theology, „Gregorianum[i.e. Lat. Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana (Eng. Pontifical Gregorian University)]

from 1902

student — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

activist — social

founder — a few guards

sites and events
descriptions

IL Šaltupis: Germ. „Internierungslager” (Eng. „Internment camp”) — in 01.1942, at the Šaltupis estate in Lithuania, the Germans established an internment camp, in practice Germ. „Zwangsarbeitslager” (Eng. „slave labour camp”) for the Polish clergy. The formal founding order was issued by a Lithuanian collaborator, the police chief of the city of Vilnius. The camp was managed by the German Secret Political Police Gestapo, but the commandant was another Lithuanian collaborator, known for his brutality and sadism towards prisoners. On 17.10.1942, professors of the Theological Faculty of the University of Stefan Batory (operating clandestinely after the University was closed by the Lithuanians in 1939) and the Theological Seminary in Vilnius were brought in. Apart from them, Vilnius monks and friars were kept in the camp: the Discalced Carmelites OCD, Jesuits SI, Vincentians CM, Brothers Hospitallers OH and one Franciscan OFM. Together c. 50 people. The internees slaved on a farm. In 04.1943 some of the prisoners were released. Most of them however were held until the defeat of Germany and the start of the Russian occupation in 07.1944. A few perished in the camp.

Vilnius (Lukiškės): Vilnius prison used both by Russians and Germans. Thousands of Poles were kept there. From 2,000 to 16,000 prisoners were jailed at any time there. In 06.1941, after German invasion, Russians murdered most of the prisoners. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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03.03.1942 arrests (Vilnius): On 03.03.1942 in Vilnius Germans arrested 28 professors and 81 seminarians of Vilnius Theological Seminary, prob. denounced by the Lithuanians. A few weeks later, on 26.03.1942, the Germans and the Lithuanians who collaborated with them arrested 9 religious fathers, 5 brothers, 2 novices and 1 boy helping in the kitchen, from the Jesuit College of Vilnius. All were locked in Lukiškės prison in Vilnius. Professors were on 18.03.1942 transported to Wyłkowyszki and interned there. In 10.1942 were subsequently sent to concentration camp (i.e. Szałtupie, IL Panevėžiukas). The seminarians were transported out on 04.05.1942 to Germany for slave labour (most of them escaped during the transport). Theological seminary was closed. Few weeks after Vilnius seminary arrests, on 26.03.1942 Germans arrested Vilnius religious friars and clerics (Jesuits and Missionary Fathers of St Vincent a Pauli, among others) who got exposed to the same prison treatment. (more on: www.tygodnik.ltClick 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 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
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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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bibliographical:
Vilnius archdiocese clergy martyrology 1939‐1945”, Fr Thaddeus Krahel, Białystok, 2017
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