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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

SIMON

forename(s)

Louis (pl. Alojzy)

religious forename(s)

George (pl. Jerzy)

function

religious cleric

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]

congregation

Order of Friars Minor OFMmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

(i.e. Franciscans, Minorites)

diocese / province

St Hedwig od Silesia province OFMmore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.08.18]

date and place
of death

23.03.1945

Prudniktoday: Prudnik gm., Prudnik pov., Opole voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.02]

details of death

After the nation–socialist NSDAP party took power in Germany in 01.1933, as arrested in 1934 and accused of foreign exchange fraud.

Held, inter alia, in Berlin–Moabit prison.

In 1936 tried in a show trial.

Sentenced to two years in prison.

On appeal exonerated and released.

During the final Russian winter offensive of 1945 ending the military confilict of the World War II — started by German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 — Prudnik was captured by the Russians on 18.03.1945.

For the next few days however there incessant skirmishes around the town, German attempts at counterattack.

Perished when his monastery became the center of a battle (24 rockets hit the monastery).

Shot during an attempt to leave the building, together with Fr Otto Mrosik.

cause of death

warfare

perpetrators

Russians

date and place
of birth

01.09.1873

Dytmarówtoday: Lubrza gm., Prudnik pov., Opole voiv., Poland
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religious vows

1892 (temporary)

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

23.06.1900 (Wrocławtoday: Wrocław city pov., Lower Silesia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.02]
)

positions held

c. 1940 – 1945

friar — Prudniktoday: Prudnik gm., Prudnik pov., Opole voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.02]
⋄ St Joseph monastery, Franciscans OFM

c. 1937 – c. 1939

vicar — Prudniktoday: Prudnik gm., Prudnik pov., Opole voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.04.02]
⋄ St Joseph monastery, Franciscans OFM

1933 – 1936

curator (vicar) — St Hedwig of Silesia province, Franciscans OFM

1930 – 1933

Provincial — St Hedwig of Silesia province, Franciscans OFM

1927 – 1930

curator (vicar) — St Hedwig of Silesia province, Franciscans OFM

1923 – 1924

superior — Głubczycetoday: Głubczyce gm., Głubczyce pov., Opole voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.04.02]
⋄ St Giles and St Bernard monastery, Franciscans OFM

1921 – 1924

curator (vicar) — St Hedwig of Silesia province, Franciscans OFM

1915 – 1921

Provincial — St Hedwig of Silesia province, Franciscans OFM

1911 – 1915

superior — Góra Świętej Annytoday: Leśnica gm., Strzelce Opolskie pov., Opole voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.04.02]
⋄ St Anne monastery, Franciscans OFM

1908 – 1911

master of novitiate — Nysatoday: Nysa gm., Nysa pov., Opole voiv., Poland
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⋄ St Elizabeth of Hungary monastery, Franciscans OFM

1905 – 1908

superior — Borki Wielkietoday: Olesno gm., Olesno pov., Opole voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Francis of Assisi monastery, Franciscans OFM — location organizer

1900 – 1905

friar — Góra Świętej Annytoday: Leśnica gm., Strzelce Opolskie pov., Opole voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.02]
⋄ St Anne monastery, Franciscans OFM — tutor of religious brothers

20.09.1891 – 1892

novitiate — Warendorftoday: Warendorf dist., Münster reg., North Rhine–Westphalia state, Germany
more on
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[access: 2022.10.15]
⋄ St Lawrence the Martyr monastery, Franciscans OFM

1889 – 1891

pupil — Harreveldtoday: Oost Gerle, Gelderland prov., Niederlands
more on
nl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.10.15]
⋄ Minor Theological Seminary (Seraphic College), Franciscans OFM

others related
in death

MROSIKClick to display biography Otto (Fr Adalbert), HERRMANNClick to display biography Bernard

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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
[access: 2023.05.28]
, www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
)

Berlin (Moabit): Prison in Berlin at Lehrter Straße, called Germ. Zellengefängnis (Eng. Cell prison), constructed in 1842‑1849 by the order of Frederic William IV, King of Prussia. During World War II German army Wehrmacht remand prison, and next German political police Gestapo prison. Place of execution including by beheading. Place of death of many Poles. Shut down in 1957‑1958. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.11.17]
)

sources

personal:
forum.ahnenforschung.netClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.08.18]
, sbc.org.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2022.10.15]

bibliographical:
Opole Silesia clergy's martyrology during II World War”, Fr Andrew Hanich, Opole 2009
Catholic Church in Głubczyce region in 1742‑1945”, Catherine Maler, vol. I and II, with erratum
original images:
sbc.org.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.10.13]

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