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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

DRYJA

forename(s)

John Vladislav (pl. Jan Władysław)

forename(s)
versions/aliases

Joseph (pl. Józef)

function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Tarnów diocesemore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]

date and place
of death

17.07.1955

Nurtoday: Nur gm., Ostrów Mazowiecka pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01]

alt. dates and places
of death

17.03.1955, 17.08.1955

details of death

After end of hostilities of the World War II, started by German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939, protested against the resettlement of the Lemkos to the east, to the areas occupied directly by the Russians.

Since c. 24.02.1947 — and more intensely from 03.1948 — watched close and held under surveillance by Commie‐Nazi UB, Polish branch of Russian NKVD.

Arrested by UB on 24.01.1951 — during so‐called action „K”, waged against „kulaks and counterrevolutionaries”.

On 26.01.1951 brought from Nowy Sącz to Kraków UB jail.

Next day moved to Montelupich Str. prison in Kraków.

On 28 and 30.03.1951 tried in a show trial in Nowy Sącz.

Accused of „abuse of freedom of religion for purposes hostile to the regime of the Republic of Poland […]; railing [during sermons] against the regime of People's Poland and the USSR, publically speaking about the alleged war waged by the Government against the Church, […] hostile opposition to the creation of production cooperatives […], storing books and brochures containing anti–Soviet statements and false information about the system and relations prevailing in the USSR”, among others.

On 30.03.1951 sentenced to 6 years in prison.

Held in Nowy Sącz, Rawicz and Wronki prisons.

0n 26.01.1955 released, with health seriously weakened.

In 02.1955 returned to Tylicz.

Half a year later (according to some sources a month later) went to meat fellow co–prisoners of the Commie‐Nazi regime and passed away.

cause of death

extermination: exhaustion and disease

perpetrators

Russians / Poles

sites and events

WronkiClick to display the description, RawiczClick to display the description, Cracow (Montelupich)Click to display the description, Nowy SączClick to display the description, GeneralgouvernementClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

09.12.1907

Nowy Sącztoday: Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

29.06.1932 (Tarnów cathedral)

positions held

1946 – 1951

parish priest — Tylicztoday: Krynica‐Zdrój gm., Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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⋄ St Peter and St Paul the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Stary Sącztoday: Stary Sącz gm., Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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RC deanery

1939 – 1946

curatus/rector/expositus — Śnietnicatoday: Uście Gorlickie gm., Gorlice pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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⋄ RC church ⋄ Kąclowatoday: Grybów gm., Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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, St Adalbert RC parish ⋄ Grybówtoday: Grybów urban gm., Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01]
RC deanery — tasked to found a new parish

1934 – 1939

vicar — Pilznotoday: Pilzno gm., Dębica pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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⋄ St John the Baptist RC parish ⋄ Pilznotoday: Pilzno gm., Dębica pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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RC deanery

1932 – 1934

vicar — Wietrzychowicetoday: Wietrzychowice gm., Tarnów pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Radłówtoday: Radłów gm., Tarnów pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01]
RC deanery

1927 – 1932

student — Tarnówtoday: Tarnów city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

sites and events
descriptions

Wronki: Penal prison in 1939‐1945 managed by the Germans — called Strafgefüngnis Wronki — for the prisoners sentenced to 6 months to 2 years incarceration, mainly Poles. Altogether up to 28,000 inmates were held there. After 1945 it was a jail for political prisoners, „enemies” of Russian‐Polish Commie‐Nazis. (more on: www.sw.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17]
, pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17]
)

Rawicz: Prison, founded in 1819‐1821, in place of the Franciscan Friars Minor's monastery, which was liquidated by the Prussian occupation authorities. During the World War II, during the German occupation of 1939‐1945, the German Germ. Zuchthaus (Eng. heavy prison), intended for men sentenced to long‐term imprisonment and penal camp sentences, levied mainly by the Germ. Warthegau (Eng. Wartha region) occupation courts. A large part of the prisoners were next transported from there to German concentration camps. After the end of the military operations of World War II, the prison was managed by the Commie‐Nazi authorities of the Russian prl republic. Many activists of the Polish clandestine independence underground were detained there, including soldiers of the Home Army AK. Political prisoners were finally released in 1956. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17]
)

Cracow (Montelupich): Cracow penal prison, during occupation run by the Germans — from 28.02.1941 by Germ. Geheime Staatspolizei (Eng. Secret State Police, known as Gestapo. In 1940‐1944 Germans jailed there approx. 50,000 prisoners, mainly Poles and Jews. Some of them were transported to KL Auschwitz concentration camp, some were executed. After cease in war effort the prison was used by UB — a Polish unit of Russian NKVD — as a prison for Polish independence resistance fighters, some of which were subsequently sent to prisons and slave labour camps in Russia. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.31]
)

Nowy Sącz: Penal prison run by the Germans. In 1939‐1945 it was also an execution site, mainly Poles arrested by the Germans. After end of warfare used by Commie‐Nazi UB, Polish branch of Russian KGB, to hold „forgotten soldiers” who continued to fight against Russian occupation after 1945. (more on: www.sw.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17]
)

Generalgouvernement: After the Polish defeat in the 09.1939 campaign, which was the result of the Ribbentrop‐Molotov Pact and constituted the first stage of World War II, and the beginning of German occupation in part of Poland (in the other, eastern part of Poland, the Russian occupation began), the Germans divided the occupied Polish territory into five main regions. In two of them new German provinces were created, two other were incorporated into other provinces. However, the fifth part was treated separately, and in a political sense it was supposed to recreate the German idea from 1915 (during World War I, after the defeat of the Russians in the Battle of Gorlice in 05.1915) of creating a Polish enclave within Germany. Illegal in the sense of international law, i.e. Hague Convention, and public law, managed by the Germans according to separate laws — especially established for the Polish Germ. Untermenschen (Eng. subhumans) — till the Russian offensive in 1945 it constituted the Germ. Großdeutschland (Eng. Greater Germany). Till 31.07.1940 formally called Germ. Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete (Eng. General Government for the occupied Polish lands) — later simply Germ. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate), as in the years 1915‐1918. From 07.1941, i.e. after the German attack on 22.06.1941 against the erstwhile ally, the Russians, it also included the Galicia district, i.e. the Polish pre‐war south‐eastern voivodeships. A special criminal law was enacted and applied to Poles and Jews, allowing for the arbitrary administration of the death penalty regardless of the age of the „perpetrator”, and sanctioning the use of collective responsibility. After the end of the military conflict of the World War UU, the government of the Germ. Generalgouvernement was recognized as a criminal organization, and its leader, governor Hans Frank, guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and executed. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.12.04]
)

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:
www.odkryjtylicz.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.09.02]
, horyzonty.ignatianum.edu.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.09.02]

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, www.radiokrakow.plClick to attempt to display webpage
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