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Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

WOŁEK

forename(s)

Louis (pl. Ludwik)

function

religious cleric

creed

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

congregation

Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette MSmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

(i.e. La Salettes)

diocese / province

Lviv archdiocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

Polish Catholic Mission in France

academic distinctions

Doctor of Philosophy
Bachelor of Theology

date and place
of death

17.09.1939

Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.16]

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II perished together with two other co‑brothers during the German aerial bombing raid on Lviv, in his rectory's rubble.

Monastery superior, Fr Clement Schlies, provincial steward, Fr Stanislav Zajchowski perished with him, and the housekeeper and a few people who took refuge in the rectory's basement.

cause of death

shelling (bombardment)

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

15.10.1900

Sielectoday: Iwierzyce gm., Ropczyce – Sędziszów Małopolski pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]

religious vows

08.09.1920 (temporary)
19.12.1925 (permanent)

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

19.12.1925 (Tournaitoday: Hainaut prov., Wallonia reg., Belgium
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.11.20]
)

positions held

1933 – 1939

superior of the house and parish priest — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ Congregation's house, La Salettes MS ⋄ Our Lady the Queen of Poland RC parish ⋄ Lviv intra Urbemdeanery name
today: Lviv, Ukraine
RC deanery

1930 – 1933

friar and parish vicar — Kobylankatoday: Gorlice gm., Gorlice pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ Congregation's house, La Salettes MS ⋄ St John the Baptist RC parish ⋄ Biecztoday: Biecz gm., Gorlice pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01]
RC deanery — also: prefect of elementary schools

1926 – 1930

friar — Dębowiectoday: Dębowiec gm., Jasło pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.05.30]
⋄ Congregation House and Our Lady of La Sallete Sanctuary, La Salettes MS — professor – teacher – in Minor Theological Seminary

1925 – 1926

priest — Monstoday: Mons mun., Hainaut prov., Wallonia reg., Belgium
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[access: 2023.03.16]
 — among Polish emigres in the Borinage/Mons coal basin

1924 – 1925

student — Kaintoday: district of Tournai, Hainaut prov., Wallonia reg., Belgium
more on
fr.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.11.20]
⋄ Studium Generale (philosophical–theological college), Abbey (Le Saulchoir), Dominicans OP — postgraduate specialised studies completed with a Bachelor's degree in theology

1923 – 1924

student — Susatoday: Turin prov., Piedmont reg., Italy
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[access: 2023.03.16]
⋄ Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Congregation's house (Villa Sampietro), La Salettes MS — post–doctoral studies in theology

1922 – 1923

student — Fribourgtoday: Fribourg can., Switzerland
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[access: 2021.07.25]
⋄ theology, Lat. Universitas Friburgensis (Eng. University of Fribourg) — postgraduate specialised studies

1920 – 1922

PhD student — Freiburg im Breisgautoday: Freiburg im Breisgau urban dist., Freiburg reg., Baden–Württemberg state, Germany
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ philosophy, Albrecht and Louis University — studies crowned with Doctor of Philosophy diploma

07.09.1919 – 08.09.1920

novitiate — Susatoday: Turin prov., Piedmont reg., Italy
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[access: 2023.03.16]
⋄ Congregation's house (Villa Sampietro), La Salettes MS

1919

accession — La Salettes MS

others related
in death

BIALIKIEWICZClick to display biography Charles, BIEGUSClick to display biography Joseph (Fr Victor), NOWAKClick to display biography Peter, RAJZERClick to display biography Mary (Sr Romana), SCHLEISClick to display biography Clement, SITARSKAClick to display biography Helen, ZAJCHOWSKIClick to display biography Stanislav

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

Air raids 1939: During invasion of Poland commenced on 01.09.1939 Germans systematically attacked civilian targets. Many cities (Wieluń, Frampol, Warszawa, Lwów, Łomża, Puck, etc.) were bombed during air raids and totally destroyed. The hospitals and churches, visibly marked as such, were not spared. German planes also attacked columns of fleeing people on the roads, massacring them. It is estimated that c. 150,000–200,000 civilians were killed or murdered by the Germans in 09.1939. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.04.18]
)

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
[access: 2023.05.28]
, www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
)

sources

personal:
cracovia-leopolis.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.01.06]
, www.saletyni.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.01.13]
, saletyni.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.03.16]
, www.sacerdospolonus.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.08.14]

bibliographical:
Register of Latin rite Lviv metropolis clergy’s losses in 1939‑45”, Józef Krętosz, Maria Pawłowiczowa, editors, Opole, 2005
Biographical lexicon of Lviv Roman Catholic Metropoly clergy victims of the II World War 1939‑1945”, Mary Pawłowiczowa (ed.), Fr Joseph Krętosz (ed.), Holy Cross Publishing, Opole, 2007
original images:
www.saletyni.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.01.13]

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