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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
TARGOSZ
forename(s)
Stanislav Peter (pl. Stanisław Piotr)
function
diocesan priest
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
diocese / province
Cracow archdiocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]
RC Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.12.20]
honorary titles
War Order of Virtuti Militari — Silver (5th Class)more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.10.13]
„Cross of Valour”more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.04.16]
„Army Medal for War 1939–45”more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.04.16]
date and place
of death
30.06.1944
Trodican. Monte San Giusto
today: Morrovalle neighborhood, Macerata prov., Marche reg., Italy
more on
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[access: 2024.12.13]
details of death
The German and Russian invasion of the Poland in 09.1939 and the beginning of World War II found him in the USA, where in 08.1939 went to take part in the International Congress of Youth Organizations „Pax Romana” in the Polish delegation on behalf of the Academic Youth Association „Revival”. Resided at the seminary in Orchard Lake, and next became a vicar in Detroit.
On 01.11.1941‐15.05.1942 did his military service at the Thaddeus Kościuszko training camp in Owen Sound on Lake Houran in the Canadian state of Ontario. On 15.10.1942 appointed chaplain for the duration of the war.
In 05.1943 left the United States. By the sea, through South Africa, around the Cape of Good Hope, reached the western coast of India, and there stopped at the Polish refugee camp in Valivade near the city of Kolhapur, in the state of Maharashtra. From there, by land, reached Julis, then in the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine.
There, on 01.11.1943, was assigned to the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Carpathian Rifle Brigade, part of the 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division, which was the core of the 2nd Polish Corps under the command of General Vladislav Anders. Was the successor of Fr Hermenegild Palli, who died in Palestine.
His Division trained in Iraq — most of the soldiers were Poles deported by the Russians in 1939‐1941 „to Siberia”, who left the Russian „inhuman land” with General Anders — but then in 11.1943 was transferred to Al Kasasin, c. 30 km west of Ismailia, in Egypt.
From there, on 13‐21.12.1943, his Battalion was transported from the port of Suez to the Mare Piccolo port in Taranto in the Italian province of Taranto.
02.02‐12.04.1944, in winter, defended a position along the Sangro River in the Apennines, after which it was transported c. 120 km north to San Pietro in Valle. This village was in the vicinity the German, heavily defended „Gustav Line”.
Then, until 19.05.1944, it took part in the great Battle and the great Polish triumph at Monte Cassino, also known as the Battle of Rome, that broke through that „line”.
On 11‐13.06.1944, the greatly reduced Battalion was transferred to the Adriatic Sea coast, to Città San Angelo, from where it headed north as the vanguard of the Allied pursuit of the retreating Germans.
C. 100 km further north, on 20‐25.06.1944, the Battalion fought a fierce battle with the Germans on the Chienti River, near the town of Monte San Giusto, c. 15 km inland, suffering significant losses ‐ greater than during the Battle of Monte Cassino.
When on 25.06.1944 the Battalion was relieved, transferred to Porto San Elpido on the Adriatic Sea, himself remained in Monte San Giusto to take care for the wounded and bury the fallen.
When another attack on 30.06.1944 on German fortifications on the Chienti River met no resistance — the Germans had withdrawn — went to collect the wounded and dead on the northern bank of the river, in the direction of the town of Morrovale.
Perished there — one of the witnesses wrote: „As a result of a mine explosion, which broke both of his legs and made a large wound in his left side, he fell on his dead comrades”.
Another recalled: „Detonation of three mines. The remains of a vehicle on the bank of the river. The driver covered in blood. The remains of corpses scattered on the trees. The body and bones of Father Targosz torn apart in many places. Leukemia before his eyes. A medallion in his mouth. A thorn branch stuck in his temple”…
cause of death
mine explosion
perpetrators
Germans
sites and events
Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description
date and place
of birth
13.04.1911
Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07]
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
05.04.1936 (St Francis of Assisi basilica in Krakówmore on
lt.wikipedia.org
[access: 2018.09.02])
positions held
1943 – 30.06.1944
RC military chaplain — 3rd Battalion of the 1st Carpathian Rifle Brigade, part of the 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division of the 2nd Polish Corps, Polish Armed Forces (formed „in the West”), Polish Armed Forces — posthumously promoted to the rank of major; nominated as secretary to Bishop Józef Gawlina, Field Bishop of the Polish Army, beginning his ministry on 01.07.1944; on 15.10.1942 appointed chaplain of the Roman Catholic military clergy for the duration of the war, with the rank of captain
1942 – 1943
vicar — Detroittoday: Wayne Cou., Michigan US‐MI state, United States of America
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[access: 2022.08.05] ⋄ St Jack the Confessor RC parish
1941 – 1942
RC military chaplain — Owen Soundtoday: Grey reg., Ontario prov., Canada
more on
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[access: 2024.12.13] ⋄ Tadeusz Kościuszko Military Training Camp, Polish Armed Forces (formed „in the West”), Polish Armed Forces — military training
1940 – 1941
vicar — Detroittoday: Wayne Cou., Michigan US‐MI state, United States of America
more on
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[access: 2022.08.05] ⋄ St Francis of Assisi RC parish
1939 – 1940
priest — Orchard Laketoday: Oakland Cou., Michigan US‐MI state, United States of America
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[access: 2022.02.03] ⋄ St Cyril and St Methodius Polish Seminary for Refugees and Displaced Persons Priests, Seminarians and Students
1938 – 1939
vicar — KrakówPodgórze neighorhood
today: part od XIII District, Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18] ⋄ St Joseph Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.06.07] RC deanery
1936 – 1938
vicar — Zebrzydowicetoday: Kalwaria Zebrzydowska gm., Wadowice pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18] ⋄ St Michael the Archangel RC parish ⋄ Skawinatoday: Skawina gm., Kraków pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18] RC deanery
1931 – 1936
student — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07] ⋄ Department of Theology, Jagiellonian University UJ
1931 – 1936
student — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.06.07] ⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary
author of „Catholic Polonia in the United States in Cross–Section”, 1943; memories, partly published posthumously as „Diary of a Chaplain from Monte Cassino”
others related
in death
GĄSIOREKClick to display biography Steven, BIKClick to display biography Emanuel (Fr Charles), BORYŃSKIClick to display biography Henry, HUPAClick to display biography Victor (Fr Fortunate), KRÓLClick to display biography Joseph, MISIUDAClick to display biography Hubert, POGŁÓDEKClick to display biography Constantine
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.bj.uj.edu.plClick to attempt to display webpage
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[access: 2013.08.31], repozytorium.amu.edu.plClick to attempt to display webpage
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[access: 2013.08.31], x.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.12.13], repozytorium.amu.edu.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.18], repozytorium.amu.edu.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.31], repozytorium.amu.edu.plClick to attempt to display webpage
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[access: 2013.08.31], repozytorium.amu.edu.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.18], repozytorium.amu.edu.plClick to attempt to display webpage
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[access: 2021.12.18], www.katedrapolowa.plClick to attempt to display webpage
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