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St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

GĄSIOROWSKI

forename(s)

Francis (pl. Franciszek)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Warsaw archdiocesemore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]

Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
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[access: 2014.12.20]

honorary titles

Rochettum et Mantolettum canonmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]

Pro Ecclesia et Pontificemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.02.02]

Order of St. Gregory the Greatmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.02.02]

Cross of Independencemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.02.02]

date and place
of death

25.09.1939

Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]

details of death

From 1896 member of Collegium Secretum, clandestine organisation of Polish priests in Russian–run Polish Kingdom (partitions of Poland) founded to defend Catholic Unites persecuted by the Russians.

In 1903‐1904 co–editor of cladestine „To Us” and member of National Education Society (congresses and meetings were held in his flat, as well as weapons hidden).

During World War I member of clandestine Polish Military Organisation POW (a clandestine Polish organization in Russia active during World War I in 1914‐1918: collected funds for Polish Legions).

In 1920 participant of plebiscite deciding the fate of Warmia and Mazurian regions.

During Polish–Russian war of 1920 chaplain of field hospitals.

After German invasion on 01.09.1939 of Poland (Russians invaded Poland 17 days later) and start of the World War II perished during Warsaw siege and aerial bombardment by the Germans on the day called „Black Monday”.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

Warsaw (Black Monday)Click to display the description, Air raids 1939Click to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description, Polish‐Russian war of 1919‐1921Click to display the description

date and place
of birth

04.10.1876

Strachocin Szlacheckitoday: Stary Strachocin and Nowy Strachocin, Szelków gm., Maków Mazowiecki pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.01.28]

alt. dates and places
of birth

04.10.1874, 04.10.1879

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1900

positions held

1934 – 1939

parish priest — WarsawWola district
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.08.05]
⋄ St Stanislav the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Warsaw‐in‐urbedeanery name
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
RC deanery

c. 1930 – 1934

curatus/rector/expositus — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ St Martin, the Bishop and Confessor RC church ⋄ St John the Baptist RC archcathedral parish ⋄ Warsaw‐in‐urbedeanery name
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
RC deanery — also: chaplain of the Christian Workers' Association (c. 1930)

c. 1909 – 1934

prefect — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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⋄ schools, including Z. Sierpińska's gymnasium, John Zamoyski's Gymnasium [i.e. John Zamoyski's Society Gymnasium (from 1915), Gen. Paul Chrzanowski Gymnasium (till 1915)]

1928 – 1930

parliamentary deputy — Seym of the 2nd Term of the Second Polish Republic

1922 – 1927

parliamentary deputy — Seym of the 1st Term of the Second Polish Republic

c. 1918 – c. 1925

vicar — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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⋄ St Martin, the Bishop and Confessor RC church ⋄ St John the Baptist RC archcathedral parish ⋄ Warsaw‐in‐urbedeanery name
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
RC deanery

from c. 1919

president — Association of Working Women Association

c. 1914 – c. 1917

vicar — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ Holy Savior RC parish ⋄ Warsaw‐in‐urbedeanery name
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
RC deanery

c. 1912 – c. 1913

vicar — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ St Anthony of Padua RC parish ⋄ Warsaw‐in‐urbedeanery name
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
RC deanery

c. 1909 – c. 1911

vicar — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ St Martin, the Bishop and Confessor RC church ⋄ St John the Baptist RC archcathedral parish ⋄ Warsaw‐in‐urbedeanery name
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
RC deanery

from 1910

publisher — magazine, „Catholic Worker

c. 1906 – 1908

administrator — Dobratoday: Stryków gm., Zgierz pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St John the Baptist and St Dorothy tjhe Virgin and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Brzezinytoday: Brzeziny urban gm., Brzeziny pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

1906

co–founder — Polish Association of Domestic Service

c. 1906

priest — Warsawregion known as „Leszno” (around Leszno Str.)
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland

more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ St Augustine the Bishop and Confessor RC church ⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Warsaw‐in‐urbedeanery name
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
RC deanery

c. 1905

vicar — Warsawregion known as „Leszno” (around Leszno Str.)
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland

more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Warsaw‐in‐urbedeanery name
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
RC deanery

1905

co–founder — Christian Workers Association SRCh

c. 1904

vicar — Wolatoday: district of Warsaw, Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Stanislav the Bishop and Martyr and St Lawrence the Deacon and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Warsaw‐extra‐Urbemdeanery name
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
RC deanery

1903 – 1904

editor — magazine, „To You” — co‐editor

c. 1903

vicar — Zgierztoday: Zgierz urban gm., Zgierz pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Catherine of Alexandria the Virgin and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Łódźtoday: Łódź city pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.07.18]
RC deanery

c. 1902

vicar — Pszczonówtoday: Maków gm., Sierniewice pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.07.16]
⋄ All the Saints and St Dorothy RC parish ⋄ Łowicztoday: Łowicz urban gm., Łowicz pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

c. 1901

vicar — Grzegorzewtoday: Grzegorzew gm., Koło pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor RC church ⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Łęczycatoday: Łęczyca urban gm., Łęczyca pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

c. 1895 – 1900

student — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Metropolitan Theological Seminary

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sites and events
descriptions

Warsaw (Black Monday): On 25.09.1939 from 7:00 till late evening more than 400 German bombers made aerial raids on Warsaw. Almost 630 tons of explosives, both incendiary and demolishing were dropped. Caused c. 200 fires. Public building were not spared, including hospitals clearly marked with Red Cross signs (in fact they were targeted in the first place). Holy Ghost hospital was among them and c. 700 people, both patients and staff were killed (including 20 Vincentian sisters). Altogether during the raids called „Black Mondayc. 10,000 people perished, 35,000 were wounded, mostly civilian. The raids were in contravention of Hague agreements and must be regarded as an act of war crime. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.04.18]
)

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 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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, www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
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Polish‐Russian war of 1919‐1921: War for independence of Poland and its borders. Poland regained independence in 1918 but had to fight for its borders with former imperial powers, in particular Russia. Russia planned to incite Bolshevik‐like revolutions in the Western Europe and thus invaded Poland. Russian invaders were defeated in 08.1920 in a battle called Warsaw battle („Vistula river miracle”, one of the 10 most important battles in history, according to some historians). Thanks to this victory Poland recaptured part of the lands lost during partitions of Poland in XVIII century, and Europe was saved from the genocidal Communism. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20]
)

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