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St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
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Warsaw archdiocese, Poland
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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland
XX century (1914 – 1989)
personal data
surname
MOSZYŃSKI
forename(s)
Mieczyslav (pl. Mieczysław)
religious forename(s)
Celestine (pl. Celestyn)
function
laybrother
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]
congregation
Order of Friars Minor Conventual OFMConvmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]
(i.e. Conventual Franciscans)
diocese / province
Immaculate Mary province OFMConvmore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.08.18]
Apostolic BS Exarchate of Harbin (Russia)more on
www.catholic-hierarchy.org
[access: 2022.12.04]
date and place
of death
05.12.1945
Harbintoday: Heilongjiang prov., China
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.03.19]
details of death
In 1942, during World War II, started by the German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939, after the start of the Japanese–American war in 12.1941, went to Harbin — under Japanese occupation from 1932 — for treatment.
There settled in the Marian Fathers' mission, mainly serving among Russian–speaking Uniates and Orthodox Christians, and among Polish refugees.
Meanwhile, in 1932, the notorious Japanese Unit 731 began operating in the Pingfang suburb of Harbin.
Under the guise of water treatment research, the facility ran a secret biological and chemical weapons research and development program involving prisoners.
According to some data, up to 20,000 Chinese could have died in the camp itself, while all the activities of the Unit were to lead to the death of from 200,000 to even 580,000 people — 70% of Chinese nationality, and 30% Russian.
In 08‐091945, at the end of World War II in the east, the Russian Manchurian Operation took place, as a result of which the Russians captured the entire Manchuria — Harbin was captured on 21.08.1945.
The operation was characterized by massive Russian murders and rapes (sometimes perpetrated by the Chinese local community) and Japanese mass suicides, accompanied by forcing mothers to kill their children and leaving the wounded and sick unattended.
At the same time, the Japanese from Unit 731, before the closure and total destruction of the center, prob. released animals infected with various diseases into the wild.
This resulted in outbreaks of mass plagues in which at least 30,000 people could have died by 1948 — the problem was exacerbated by c. 1,000,000 Japanese prisoners and refugees who, after the Russians entered and before displacement to Japan, had passed through the Harbin POW and refugee camps.
With the cooperation of local Poles, helped the sick and the needy, especially after the outbreak of typhus among the internees.
Took special care of children and baptized the dying.
Was known as „Father of the poor”, „advocate of the unfortunate”, „holy brother”.
During the ministry got infected and died.
cause of death
extermination: exhaustion and disease
perpetrators
Japanese
sites and events
Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description
date and place
of birth
10.03.1909
Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02]
religious vows
26.05.1932 (last)
positions held
1942 – 1945
friar — Harbintoday: Heilongjiang prov., China
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[access: 2024.03.19] ⋄ St Nicholas Congregation's house, Marians of the Immaculate Conception MIC — i.a. apostolic work among Orthodox and pagans: preparing catechumens for baptism in the St Josaphat parish (from 1943), tutoring children of Polish refugees in the St Casimir dormitory (1942‐1943)
1931 – 1942
friar — Nagasakitoday: Nagasaki pref., Kiusiu reg., Japan
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[access: 2022.10.26] ⋄ Conventual Franciscans OFMConv — i.a. editor of „Seibo no Kishi”, the Japanese version of „Knight of the Immaculate”, service among the sick
till c. 1930
novitiate — Niepokalanówtoday: part of Paprotnia village, Teresin gm., Sochaczew pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09] ⋄ Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary monastery, Conventual Franciscans OFMConv
1928
accession — Conventual Franciscans OFMConv
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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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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