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
SZAFRAN
forename(s)
Eustace (pl. Eustachy)
function
presbiter (i.e. iereus)
creed
Eastern Orthodox Church ORmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
Ukrainian Greek Catholic GCmore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]
diocese / province
Przemyśl GC eparchymore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]
nationality
Ukrainian
date and place
of death
1947
(Ukraine territory)today: Ukraine
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[access: 2022.08.05]
details of death
After end of the World War II military hostilities, started by German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939, 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, apostasized and joined Orthodoxy (prob. after so‐called pseudo–council of Lviv on 08‐10.03.1946 that decreed „closure” of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and it's incorporation into Russian Orthodox Church).
In 1947 went to visit his former parish priest from Lubycza–Kniazie parish, who after deportation from Polish prl state controlled by Russians lived in Mykulyntsi n. Ternopil (c. 60 km from his Zastavtsi church).
Did not reach his destination — according to some Ukrainian sources murdered by agents of Russian MGB (successor of genocidal NKVD organization), in unknown circumstances (according to others arrested by MGB and „lost without trace”).
The body was never found.
cause of death
extermination
perpetrators
Russians
sites and events
Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description
date and place
of birth
05.05.1913
Tarnawkatoday: Markowa gm., Łańcut pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
28.03.1937 (Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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positions held
1946 – 1947
presbiter (Eng. priest, i.e. iereus) — Zastavtsitoday: Monastyryska urban hrom., Chortkiv rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.04.02] ⋄ OR parish
c. 1946
apostasy — conversion from Greek Catholic Church to Orthodox Church
1939 – 1945
vicar — Yastrubychitoday: Radekhiv urban hrom., Chervonohrad rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.08.05] ⋄ St Michael the Archangel GC parish ⋄ Sokaltoday: Sokal urban hrom., Chervonohrad rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.11.20] GC deanery
1937 – 1939
vicar — Lubycza‐Kniazietoday: Kniazie, Lubycza Królewska gm., Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
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[access: 2023.04.02] ⋄ St Paraskeva Pyatnitsa GC parish ⋄ Rava‐Ruskatoday: Rava‐Ruska urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.16] GC deanery
1932 – 1937
student — Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] ⋄ philosophy and theology, Greek Catholic Theological Seminary
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
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sources
personal:
dlibra.kul.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.12.26]
bibliographical:
„Clergy of Przemyśl Eparchy and Apostolic Exarchate of Lemkivshchyna”, Bogdan Prach, Ukrainian Catholic University Publishing House, Lviv 2015
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