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
surname
SAMULSKI
forename(s)
Thomas (pl. Tomasz)
function
diocesan priest
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]
diocese / province
Gniezno and Poznań archdiocese (aeque principaliter)more on
www.archpoznan.pl
[access: 2012.11.23]
RC Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.12.20]
date and place
of death
24.09.1944
Lashamtoday: Hampshire Cou., England, United Kingdom
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.03.19]
details of death
During World War I, as a student of the Germ. Königliches Wilhelms–Gymnasium (Eng. Royal Wilhelm Gymnasium) in Krotoszyn — transformed in 1919, after the German authorities were expelled from Krotoszyn, during the Greater Poland Uprising of 1918‐1919, into the Polish Hugo Kołłątaj Gymnasium — a participant in the clandestine, self‐educational student Thomas Zan Society organization.
After the German invasion of Poland on 01.09.1939 (the Russians attacked Poland 17 days later) and the beginning of World War II, in fear of the Germans, left with his vicar the Turkowy parish, located c. 6 km from the German border.
Together with thousands of refugees and soldiers of the Polish Army, managed to reach the Romanian border and cross it. Prob. interned there, but escaped and found his way to Great Britain (probably after the French defeat in 05‐06.1940, when the Polish army formed there moved to the British Isles).
Became a chaplain of the Polish Armed Forces formed in the West — the 1st Armoured–Motorised Corps, stationed in Scotland.
Was a chaplain of units stationed in the Glasgow area.
Perished after being invited by an acquaintance to take part in a night training flight — it was the first time in his life that had flown in an aircraft — a Mosquito FB.VI (PZ302) fighter from the Polish 305th „Greater Poland and Lida named after Marshal Joseph Piłsudski” Bomber Squadron stationed at the British Royal Air Force airport RAF Lasham. The fighter collided with another Mosquito FB.VI SM‐Q (LR262) fighter, with a British crew. The planes fell and crashed near the airport. All four pilots and passengers died.
cause of death
accident
sites and events
Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description
date and place
of birth
11.12.1900
Rozdrażewtoday: Rozdrażew gm., Krotoszyn pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
15.03.1924 (Gniezno cathedralmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14])
positions held
c. 1940 – 1944
RC military chaplain — Glasgowtoday: Glasgow City Cou., Scotland, United Kingdom
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[access: 2022.06.29] ⋄ 1st Armoured–Motorised Corps, Polish Armed Forces (formed „in the West”), Polish Armed Forces — in the rank of captain
1937 – 1939
parish priest — Turkowytoday: Perzów gm., Kępno pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.25] ⋄ Ten Thousands of Saint Martyrs RC parish ⋄ Bralintoday: Bralin gm., Kępno pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18] RC deanery
1937 – 1939
administrator — Domasłówtoday: Perzów gm., Kępno pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.02.03] ⋄ St Giles the Abbot RC parish ⋄ Bralintoday: Bralin gm., Kępno pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18] RC deanery
1932 – 1937
administrator — Mąkoszycetoday: Kobyla Góra gm., Ostrzeszów pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18] ⋄ Sacred Heart of Jesus and All the Saints RC church ⋄ Mąkoszyce‐Marcinkiparish name
today: Kobyla Góra gm., Ostrzeszów pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], All the Saints RC parish ⋄ Bralintoday: Bralin gm., Kępno pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18] RC deanery
1929 – 1932
vicar — Pępowotoday: Pępowo gm., Gostyń pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.06.20] ⋄ St Hedwig of Silesia RC parish ⋄ Jutrosintoday: Jutrosin gm., Rawicz pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.19] RC deanery
1929
vicar — Zbąszyńtoday: Zbąszyń gm., Nowy Tomyśl pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.06.20] ⋄ Blessed Virgin Mary of the Assumption RC parish ⋄ Zbąszyńtoday: Zbąszyń gm., Nowy Tomyśl pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.06.20] RC deanery
1926 – 1929
chaplain — Żabikowotoday: district of Luboń, Luboń urban gm., Poznań pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18] ⋄ Sacred Heart of Jesus RC chapel (at the Handmaids of Greater Poland ABMVwp convent) ⋄ Wirytoday: Komorniki gm., Poznań pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.06.16], St Florian the Martyr RC parish ⋄ Stęszewtoday: Stęszew gm., Stęszew pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.20] RC deanery
from 1925
vicar — Tulcetoday: Kleszczewo gm., Poznań pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.07.16] ⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Środatoday: Środa Wielkopolska, Środa Wielkopolska gm., Środa Wielkopolska pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.20] RC deanery
till 1924
student — Gnieznotoday: Gniezno urban gm., Gniezno pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18] ⋄ philosophy and theology, Archbishop's Practical Theological Seminary (Lat. Seminarium Clericorum Practicum)
student — Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18] ⋄ philosophy and theology, Archbishop's Theological Seminary (Collegium Leoninum)
author of the „Saint Andrew Bobola” biography, published in „Christ Teachings” booklet, script 6 No. 10, in Polish military camp in Perth in Scotland in 06.1941
others related
in death
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sites and events
descriptions
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.makoszyce.parafia.info.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.10], www.polishairforce.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.10], muzeum.gostyn.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.12.13], www.wtg-gniazdo.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.10], www.straty.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.04.18]
original images:
www.makoszyce.parafia.info.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.10], www.makoszyce.parafia.info.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.10], niebieskaeskadra.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.28]
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