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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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religious status

Servant of God

surname

HORECZKO

forename(s)

Michael (pl. Michał)

forename(s)
versions/aliases

Michael (pl. Michajło)

function

eparchial priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Przemyśl GC eparchymore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

Apostolic GC Exarchate of Lemkowszczyznamore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.03.02]

nationality

Ukrainian

date and place
of death

14.01.1953

Dzhonkatoday: Nanaysky reg., Khabarovsk Krai, Russia
more on
ru.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.03.19]

alt. dates and places
of death

16.01.1953 (burial date)

Innokentievkatoday: Nanaysky reg., Khabarovsk Krai, Russia

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start of Russian occupation, persecuted by the Russians in Holovetsko left his parish and moved to East Bieszczady mountains.

There ministered for some time.

Later, prob. after German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russians, and start of German occupation, returned to territory n. his old parish and ministered in Velikyi Potik.

After German defeat and start in 1944 of another Russian occupation, after the end of military hostilities of the World War II, refused to convert to Russian Orthodox Church (at the so‐called Lviv pseudo–council on 08‐10.03.1946 Russians formally „liquidated” Greek Catholic Church robbing it of its possessions and incorporatin it to Orthodox Church).

Arrested by the Russian murderous MGB (successor of genocidal NKVD) in 03.1950.

Held in Borislav transit camp.

There contracted lung illness.

Despite of that on 04.07.1950 deported to Nanai region in Khabarovsk oblast in the Russian Far East.

Suffering from hypertonia perished during Christmas liturgy (according to Julian calendar).

cause of death

extermination

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

Forced exileClick to display the description, GulagClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

19.10.1903

Aksmanicetoday: Fredropol gm., Przemyśl pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]

alt. dates and places
of birth

19.10.1900

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

30.03.1930

positions held

1944 – 1950

administrator — Rosokhytoday: Staryi Sambir urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary GC parish ⋄ Staryi Sambirform.: Staremiasto
today: Staryi Sambir urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]
GC deanery

till 1944

priest — Velykyi Potiktoday: Potik, Staryi Sambir urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St Nicholas the Wonderworker GC parish ⋄ Staryi Sambirform.: Staremiasto
today: Staryi Sambir urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]
GC deanery

from 1941

priest — Verkhnje Husynetoday: Borynia hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Blessed Virgin Mary GC parish ⋄ Verkhnje Vysots'ketoday: Borynia hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.16]
GC deanery

1939 – 1940

parish priest — Holovetsko Dolnetoday: Holovetsko, Strilky hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.08.05]
⋄ Epiphany of the Lord GC parish ⋄ Zhukotyntoday: Turka urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
GC deanery

1932 – 1939

parish priest — Wola Cieklińskatoday: Dębowiec gm., Jasło pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.22]
⋄ St Demetrius the Martyr GC parish ⋄ Duklatoday: Dukla gm., Krosno pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]
GC deanery

1930 – 1932

administrator — Chyrowatoday: Dukla gm., Krosno pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.22]
⋄ Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary GC parish ⋄ Duklatoday: Dukla gm., Krosno pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]
GC deanery

till 1930

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

others related
in death

ANDREJCZUKClick to display biography Peter, DIAKClick to display biography Basil, DOBRIAŃSKIClick to display biography Nicholas, HAJDIUKClick to display biography Michael, HAJDIUKClick to display biography Michael, HOŁOWACZClick to display biography Nicholas, LESZCZUKClick to display biography Joseph, KOSTYSZYNClick to display biography Vladimir, LISKIEWICZClick to display biography Nicholas, ŁEMCIOClick to display biography Vladimir, NIMYŁOWICZClick to display biography Demetrius, SZAŁASZClick to display biography Steven, SZCZERBAClick to display biography Yaroslav, SZEWCZUKClick to display biography Basil, SZUMIŁOClick to display biography Rostislav, WEŁYCZKOClick to display biography Michael, WENHRYNOWICZClick to display biography Orestes, WENHRYNOWICZClick to display biography Stephen Emilian, WENHRYNOWICZClick to display biography Vladimir, ZAWOROTIUKClick to display biography Michael, KRILClick to display biography Michael, NICZAJClick to display biography Stephen, WOROBIJClick to display biography Michael

sites and events
descriptions

Forced exile: One of the standard Russian forms of repression. The prisoners were usually taken to a small village in the middle of nowhere — somewhere in Siberia, in far north or far east — dropped out of the train carriage or a cart, left out without means of subsistence or place to live. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20]
)

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. He went down in history as the author of the principle „We have to squeeze everything out of the prisoner in the first three months — then nothing is there for us”. He was to be the creator, according to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, of the so‐called „Boiler system”, i.e. the dependence of food rations on working out a certain percentage of the norm. The term ZEK — prisoner — i.e. Rus. заключенный‐каналоармец (Eng. canal soldier) — was coined in the ITL BelBaltLag managed by him, and was adopted to mean a prisoner in Russian slave labor camps. Up to 12 mln prisoners were held in Gulag camps at one time, i.e. c. 5% of Russia's population. In his book „The Gulag Archipelago”, Solzhenitsyn estimated that c. 60 mln people were killed in the Gulag until 1956. Formally dissolved on 20.01.1960. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.04.08]
)

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
[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:
newsaints.faithweb.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.03.21]
, archive.wz.lviv.uaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.09.21]
, magazine.lds.lviv.uaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.03.21]

bibliographical:
Clergy of Przemyśl Eparchy and Apostolic Exarchate of Lemkivshchyna”, Bogdan Prach, Ukrainian Catholic University Publishing House, Lviv 2015
original images:
risu.org.uaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.12.26]

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