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05-507 Słomczyn
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Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

GRZEGORCZYK

forename(s)

Casimir Richard (pl. Kazimierz Ryszard)

  • GRZEGORCZYK Casimir Richard - Grave (1996), churchyard, Łyntupy; source: Waldemar W. Żurek, SDB – „Prisoners free at last”, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOGRZEGORCZYK Casimir Richard
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function

religious cleric

creed

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

congregation

Society of St Francis de Sales SDBmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

(i.e. Salesians of Don Bosco)

diocese / province

Vilnius archdiocesemore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]

St Stanislav Kostka Warsaw Inspectorate SDB

date and place
of death

19.12.1959

Lyntupytoday: Lyntupy ssov., Pastavy dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2023.01.18]

alt. dates and places
of death

16.12.1949, 19.12.1949

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after closure of all Polish institutions — and confiscation, i.e. state theft — by the Lithuanians, Stephen Batory University among others, student of the clandestine Theological Seminary in Vilnius.

After German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russians, arrested on 26.03.1942 by the Germans during mass arrests of religious clerics in Vilnius.

Jailed in Lukiškės prison in Vilnius.

Released after few days, on c. 28.03.1942 (according to other sources avoided arrest).

After German defeat and start of another Russian occupation in 1944‐1945 did not leave his parish and did not migrate to Commie‐Nazi prl state.

Survived the worst times of harassment despite being beaten up a few time by so‐called „unknown perpetrators”.

Murdered at his rectory/his home — apparently opened the door to strangers under ruse of providing baptism services.

When found „his back and chest were blue”.

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Russians (?)

sites and events

Vilnius (Lukiškės)Click to display the description, 03.03.1942 arrests (Vilnius)Click to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

05.10.1915

Łódźtoday: Łódź city pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of birth

05.10.1914

religious vows

15.07.1933 (last)

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

17.12.1941 (Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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)

positions held

1945 – 1959

parish priest — Lyntupytoday: Lyntupy ssov., Pastavy dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2023.01.18]
⋄ St Andrew the Apostle RC parish ⋄ Švenčionystoday: Švenčionys eld., Švenčionys dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2020.11.13]
RC deanery

parish priest — Hlybokayetoday: Hlybokaye dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Hlybokayetoday: Hlybokaye dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
RC deanery

1944 – 1945

administrator — Dokshytsytoday: Dokshytsy dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ On‐the‐Vilniadeanery name
today: Belarus
RC deanery

1941 – 1944

friar — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ Society's House, Salesians of Don Bosco SDB — minister at St Stephen's church

1938 – 1941

student — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ Department of Theology, Stephen Batory University [i.e. Vilnius University (from 1945) / some faculties acting clandestinely (1939‐1945) / closed by Lithuanians (1939) / Stephen Batory University (1919‐1939)]

1935 – 1938

friar — Aleksandrów Kujawskitoday: Aleksandrów Kujawski gm., Aleksandrów Kujawski pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2020.12.16]
⋄ Society's House, Salesians of Don Bosco SDB — assistance (educational and pastoral practice)

1933 – 1935

student — Marszałkitoday: Grabów nad Prosną gm., Ostrzeszów pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ philosophy, Philosophical Institute (also known as the Philosophical Studentate), Salesians of Don Bosco SDB

1932 – 1933

novitiate — Czerwińsk nad Wisłątoday: Czerwińsk nad Wisłą gm., Płońsk pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ Society's House, Salesians of Don Bosco SDB

from 1932

friar — Salesians of Don Bosco SDB

1928 – 1933

pupil — Lądalso: Ląd on Warta
today: Lądek gm., Słupca pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland

more on
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[access: 2020.12.11]
⋄ Minor Theological Seminary (for so‐called „Sons on Mary”), Salesians of Don Bosco SDB

sites and events
descriptions

Vilnius (Lukiškės): Vilnius prison used both by Russians and Germans. Thousands of Poles were kept there. From 2,000 to 16,000 prisoners were jailed at any time there. In 06.1941, after German invasion, Russians murdered most of the prisoners. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.07.04]
)

03.03.1942 arrests (Vilnius): On 03.03.1942 in Vilnius Germans arrested 28 professors and 81 seminarians of Vilnius Theological Seminary, prob. denounced by the Lithuanians. A few weeks later, on 26.03.1942, the Germans and the Lithuanians who collaborated with them arrested 9 religious fathers, 5 brothers, 2 novices and 1 boy helping in the kitchen, from the Jesuit College of Vilnius. All were locked in Lukiškės prison in Vilnius. Professors were on 18.03.1942 transported to Wyłkowyszki and interned there. In 10.1942 were subsequently sent to concentration camp (i.e. Szałtupie, IL Panevėžiukas). The seminarians were transported out on 04.05.1942 to Germany for slave labour (most of them escaped during the transport). Theological seminary was closed. Few weeks after Vilnius seminary arrests, on 26.03.1942 Germans arrested Vilnius religious friars and clerics (Jesuits and Missionary Fathers of St Vincent a Pauli, among others) who got exposed to the same prison treatment. (more on: www.tygodnik.ltClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19]
)

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

sources

personal:
www.polacynawschodzie.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.03.01]
, www.radzima.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.03.01]

bibliographical:
Vilnius archdiocese clergy martyrology 1939‐1945”, Fr Thaddeus Krahel, Białystok, 2017
Prisoners free at last”, Waldemar W. Żurek, SDB

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