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religious status

blessed

surname

ZJATYK

surname
versions/aliases

ZIATYK

forename(s)

John (pl. Jan)

beatification date

27.06.2001more on
www.swzygmunt.knc.pl
[access: 2013.05.19]

the RC Pope John Paul IImore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]

function

religious cleric

creed

Ukrainian Greek Catholic GCmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

congregation

Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer CSsRmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

(i.e. Redemptorists)

diocese / province

Lviv Greek Catholic Vice-Province CSsR

nationality

Ukrainian

date and place
of death

17.05.1952

OzerLag labour campGULAG slave labour camp network
today: Irkutsk oblast, Russia

more on
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[access: 2020.04.04]

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start in 1944 of another Russian occupation — after arrest by the Russian on 11.04.1945 of all Greek Catholic bishops on pre‑war Polish territories occupied by the Russians and „closure” of the Greek Catholic Church on so‑called pseudo–council of Lviv on 08‑10.03.1946 — interned by the Russian in Congregation's house in Golosko, together with all co–friars.

Interrogated, Przesłuchiwany, urged to apostise — without success.

On 17.10.1948 transported to Studite Fathers' monastery in Univ where Russians put all monks and friars from West Ukraine.

On 20.01.1950 arrested by the Russians.

Held in Lviv and Zlochiv prisons.

Then transported to Kiev.

There between 04.07.1950 and 16.08.1951 interrogated 38 times ‑ each time during the night, for c. 6 hours.

Altogether interrogated and repeatedly tortured 72 times.

Did not abandon his faith and did not break.

On 21.11.1951 in Kiev sentenced by the Russian criminal Special Council MGB kangaroo court — „for spreading Roman popery and Catholic faith among nations of this world”, for „collaboration with anti‑Russian nationalist organization and anti‑Russian propaganda” — to 10 years of prison and slave labour in Russian concentration camps Gulag.

Transported to Russian concentration camp no 7 OzierLag in Tayshet region, on Biriusa river (flowing into Angara), in Irkutsk oblast.

On 11.04.1952 nearly drowned by Russian guards in cold water and senselessly beaten with batons and sticks.

Left laying out of the barrack for a night.

Next day taken to camp's „hospital” — prob. „camp's hospital no 1”, n. Kvitok village, c. 45 km from Tayshet — where perished.

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Russians

date and place
of birth

26.12.1899

Odrzechowatoday: Zarszyn gm., Sanok pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]

religious vows

08.1936 (temporary)

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

30.06.1923 (Greek Catholic Przemyśl cathedral)

positions held

from c. 1948

vicar general — Lviv Archeparchy, Redemptorists CSsR — de facto

1944 – 1946

hegumen–superior — Zboyishchatoday: district of Lviv, Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.11.29]
⋄ GC Congregation's house, Redemptorists CSsR

till c. 1944

Deputy Provincial — Lviv Greek Catholic Vice–Province CSsR, Redemptorists CSsR

c. 1941 – 1944

hegumen–superior — Ternopiltoday: Ternopil urban hrom., Ternopil rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.11.20]
⋄ Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary GC Congregation's house, Redemptorists CSsR

1937 – till c. 1941

professor — LvivHolosko district
today: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine

more on
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⋄ Higher Theologica Seminary, i.e. Studentate, GC Congregation's house („Holosko”), Redemptorists CSsR — lecturer of dogmatic theology and Holy Scriptures

1937

friar — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ GC Congregation's house (at Zybilkiewicza Str.), Redemptorists CSsR — treasury officer and deputy hegumen–superior

1936 – 1937

friar — Stanislavivtoday: Ivano–Frankivsk, Stanislaviv/Ivano–Frankivsk rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano–Frankivsk, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.11.20]
⋄ Blessed Virgin Mary of Perpetual Help GC Congregation's house, Redemptorists CSsR

till 08.1936

novitiate — LvivHolosko district
today: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine

more on
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[access: 2022.11.29]
⋄ GC Congregation's house („Holosko”), Redemptorists CSsR

15.07.1935

accession — Redemptorists CSsR

1925 – 1925

professor — Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ Greek Catholic Theological Seminary — lecturer in dogmatic theology; also: spiritual father and catechist at the Ukrainian humanistic gymnasium for girls

1919 – 1923

student — Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Greek Catholic Theological Seminary

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OzerLag: Special Russian complex of concentration camps and forced labour camp for political prisoners in Irkutsk region, functioning with Gulag system. Founded in Tayshet in Siberia on 21.02.1958 with a decision of Russian murderous interior ministry MVD (replacing BratskLag, among others). Initially known as OssobLag no 7. The prisoners slaved at Baykal–Amur railway line — initially Tayshet–Bratsk part, and then Bratsk–Ust’–Kut (c. 700 km altogether). In 1952 c. 37,000 — 40,000 prisoners slave there (a quarter of them were women). The camp system was in operation till 1960. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.04.04]
, gulagmuseum.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.14]
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TayshetLag: In Tayshet, in the Irkutsk region in Siberia, there were a number of GULAG camps — including: OzerLag and Angartroy camps — where prisoners slaved mainly at forest clearances and the construction of railway lines and roads. TayshetLag was established on 26.04.1943 on the basis of the YuzhLag camp. 12,577 (07.1945), 16,980 (01.10.1945), 51,573 (04.01.1946) prisoners were held there. Liquidated on April 29.04.1946 and transformed into BratskLag, which operated until 1947. 9,958 (06.1946), 11,745 (11.1946), 11,444 (01.01.1947) prisoners slaved there. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.10]
, www.taishet.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.10]
)

Gulag: The acronym Gulag comes from the Rus. Главное управление исправительно–трудовых лагерей и колоний (Eng. Main Board of Correctional Labor Camps). The network of Russian concentration camps for slave labor was formally established by the decision of the highest Russian authorities on 27.06.1929. Control was taken over by the OGPU, the predecessor of the genocidal NKVD (from 1934) and the MGB (from 1946). Individual gulags (camps) were often established in remote, sparsely populated areas, where industrial or transport facilities important for the Russian state were built. They were modeled on the first „great construction of communism”, the White Sea–Baltic Canal (1931‑1932), and Naftali Frenkel, of Jewish origin, is considered the creator of the system of using forced slave labor within the Gulag. Up to 12 mln prisoners were held there at one time, i.e. c. 5% of Russia's population. In his book „The Gulag Archipelago”, Alexander Solzhenitsyn estimated that c. 60 mln people were killed in the Gulag until 1956. Formally dissolved on 20.01.1960. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09]
, en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09]
)

Kiev (Lyukyanivska): Russian political prison in Kiev, in the first half of 20th century run by the genocidal NKVD, informally referred to as prison No 1, formally as Investigative Prison No 13 (SIZO#13). It was founded in the early 19th century. In the 20th century, during the Soviet times, the prison church was transformed into another block of cells. During the reign of J. Stalin in Russia, more than 25,000 prisoners passed through it. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.09.21]
)

Lviv (Brygidki): Penal prison, then at 34 Kazimierzowska Str. in Lviv — in the buildings of the former monastery of the Order of St Brigid, in 1784 — after the first partition of Poland and after the dissolution of the religious orders as part of the so—called Josephine dissolutions — converted by the partitioning Austrian authorities into a prison. In 1939‑1941, the Russians held there thousands of prisoners, most of them Poles. On c. 26.06.1941, in the face of the German invasion and attack of their erstwhile ally, the Russians, during a panic escape (the left Lviv exactly on 26.06.1941), genocideally murdered several thousand prisoners. In 1941‑1944 the prison was run by the Germans and mass murders of Polish, Jewish and Ukrainian civilians took place there. After start of another Russian occupation in 1941 prison in which the executions were carried out on prisoners sentenced to death. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.09.21]
)

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
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