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St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland
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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland
XX century (1914 – 1989)
personal data
religious status
Servant of God
surname
TROJGO
forename(s)
John (pl. Jan)
function
diocesan priest
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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diocese / province
Mogilev archdiocesemore on
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academic distinctions
Theology MA
date and place
of death
11.08.1932
Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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details of death
Arrested by the Russians on 10.03.1923.
In a show trial of Abp Cieplak and 13 Catholic priests on 21‑25.03.1923 sentenced to 3 years in prison.
Held in Sokolnicheskyi prison in Moscow.
Released in 01.1935.
Returned to Sankt Petersburg.
Arrested again on 14/15.01.1927 together with Fr Paul Chomicz and Fr Anthony Wasilewski, and 6 students of clandestine theological seminary run in Fr Wasilewski's apartment among others.
Accused of „maintaining a criminal relationship with priests and representatives of Polish authorities and teaching children in a religious spirit”.
On 18.07.1927 sentenced by a criminal Russian OGPU Council kangaroo court to 5 years of slave labour.
On 30.07.1927 transported to SLON slave labour camp on Solovetsky Islands.
In 06.1929 transferred to Anzer Island concentration camp.
On 05.07.1932 arrested again and tried in a process of Catholic priests held in Anzer and Solovetsky Islands concentration camps accused of „founding a society conducting anti–Russian agitation and illegal rites and maintaining illegal contacts aimed at passing abroad information about fate of the Catholics in Russia”.
Repeatedly interrogated and urged to give up priesthood and faith.
Refused.
During interrogations fell ill.
On 22.07.1932 sent to Sankt Petersburg where perished in genocidal NKVD organisation's prison hospital.
cause of death
extermination: exhaustion and disease
perpetrators
Russians
date and place
of birth
30.12.1880
Progalinan. Romanówka
today: reserve non–existent, Sidra gm., Sokółka pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of birth
12.12.1880, 29.12.1881
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
10.08.1906 (Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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positions held
1925 – 1927
parish priest — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ St Stanislav the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31] RC deanery
editor — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ Catholic magazines — also: publisher
from 1917
chaplain — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ shelter for wounded soldiers
1916 – 1918
prefect — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ gymnasiums for women
from 1914
employee — office, to Metropolitan ⋄ Mogilev RC archdiocese — secretary, member of the Administrative Council of the Curia, the Episcopal Court and chairman of the Economic Council of the Roman Catholic Clerical College
1910 – 1914
professor — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ liturgy, Metropolitan Theological Seminary — also: librarian
1908 – 1910
prefect — Mohyliv–Podilskyitoday: Mohyliv–Podilskyi urban hrom., Mohyliv–Podilskyi rai., Vinnytsia, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17] ⋄ secondary schools
1904 – 1908
student — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ philosophy and theology, Imperial Roman Catholic Spiritual Academy (1842‑1918)
1900 – 1904
student — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ philosophy and theology, Metropolitan Theological Seminary
others related
in death
BUDKIEWICZClick to display biography Constantine Romualdo, CHODNIEWICZClick to display biography Paul, CHWIEĆKOClick to display biography Lucian, EJSMONTClick to display biography Stanislav, JANUKOWICZClick to display biography Peter, RUTKOWSKIClick to display biography Francis, TURŁOClick to display biography Joseph, TYSSOWSKIClick to display biography Casimir, WASILEWSKIClick to display biography Anthony, WORONKOClick to display biography Casimir
murder sites
camp
(+ prisoner no)
Sankt Petersburg (Kresty): Russian prison in Sankt Petersburg where many Polish priests were kept captive. Many of them were also murdered there. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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Trial of 05.07.1932: Russian trial of Catholic priests held in Solovetsky Islands and Anzer Island, accused of „creation of an anti–Russian group that conducted anti–Russian agitation, clandestinely celebrated Mass and religious rites and maintained an illegal contact with a free worker for purposes of transmitting abroad information of an espionage character about the situation of Catholics in the Russia”. The prisoners were given prolonged sentences in concentration camp and spread them among the various Gułag camps.
AnzerLag: Russian concentration camp on the Anzer Island on White Sea. On the Island, 47 km2, belonging to Solovetsky Islands archipelago, Russians organised one of the first concentration camps in Russia (part of Solovetsky Islands concentratoin camp). In 1930ties c. 32 Catholic priests were held there most of who perished. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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SLON‑Lag (Solovetsky Islands): Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp SLON (ros. Солове́цкий ла́герь осо́бого назначе́ния) — Russian concentration camp and forced labour camp, on Solovetsky Islands, in operation from 1923 and initially founded on the site of famous former Orthodox monastery. Functioned till 1939 (in 1936‑1939 as a prison). In 1920 the largest concentration camp in Russia. Place of slave labour and murder of hundreds of mainly Christian, including Catholic, priests, especially in 1920s and 1930s. The concept of future Russian slave labour concentration camps system Gulag its beginnings prob. can trace to camps of Solovetsky Islands — from there spread to the camps along Belamor canal (Baltic Sea — White Sea), and from there to all regions of Russian state. From the network of camps on Solovetsky Islands — also called Solovetsky Archipelago — Alexander Solzhenitsyn prob. formed his famous term of „Gulag Archipelago”. It is estimated that tens to hundreds of thousands prisoners were held in Solovetsky Islands camps. One source states 83,000 prisoners, of whom c. 43,000 were murdered, including c. 9.500 prisoners in 1937‑1938 who were brought out of the camp and murdered in a number of execution sites, including Sandarmokh, Krasnyi Bor and Lodeynoye Polye. Among them were many Catholic priests. After the National Socialist Party came to power in Germany in 1933, a German delegation visited the SLON camp, to „inspect” Russian solutions and adopt them later in German concentration camps. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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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. Up to 12 mln prisoners were held there at one time, i.e. c. 5% of Russia's population. In his book „The Gulag Archipelago”, Alexander Solzhenitsyn estimated that c. 60 mln people were killed in the Gulag until 1956. Formally dissolved on 20.01.1960. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09], en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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Moscow (Matrosskaya Tishina): One of Moscow prisons, set up in 1775 in Sokolniki district, thus at times known as Sokolnicheskyi prison. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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Trial of 21‑25.03.1923: Show trial against abp John Cieplakow, 14 Catholic priest and one lay Catholic held on 21‑25.03.1923 in Moscow accused of „participation in a counter–revolutionary organization aiming at counter–acting the decree on the separation of the church from the state”, of „incitement to rebellion by superstition”. The Russian prosecutor thundered: „Any movement directed against the Soviet government is counter–revolutionary and must be punished as such. For belonging to an organization whose essence I have explained, all defendants deserve the highest penalty”. And lo–and–behold abp Cieplak and Fr Budkiewicz were sentence to death, the others got from 6 months to 10 years of prison or slave labour. Fr Budkiewicz was murdered in prison. Abp Cieplak’s sentence was subsequently reduced to 10 months of slave labour and he was exchanged for Russian spies in Poland among whom was Bolesław Bierut, future first Russian governor in Commie‑Nazi Poland, conquered in 1945 by Russia. Most of the other accused were exchanged for Russian spies as well and went to Poland. At least five however did not return from prisons, concentration camps and exile, among them Fr Leonidas Fiodorov, first Greek–Catholic exarch in Russia, who in 2001 was beatified by pope St John Paul II. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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sources
personal:
katolicy1844.republika.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19], www.polskipetersburg.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.10.13], ru.openlist.wikiClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.10.13]
bibliographical:
„Fate of the Catholic clergy in USSR 1917‑1939. Martyrology”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin
original images:
pl.catholicmartyrs.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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[access: 2015.04.18], pbc.biaman.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.05.30], krzysztofpozarski.files.wordpress.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.04.16], ipn.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
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