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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland
XX century (1914 – 1989)
personal data
surname
WÓRÓWNA
surname
versions/aliases
WORÓWNA
forename(s)
Catherine (pl. Katarzyna)
religious forename(s)
Zdislava (pl. Zdzisława)
function
nun
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
congregation
Congregation of the Shepherdess' Sisters of Divine Providence CSDP
(i.e. Shepherd Sisters)
date and place
of death
01.1945
Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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details of death
According to religious sources „was killed by soldiers in January 1945”, under unspecified circumstances.
On 12.01.1945, the so‐called the Vistula–Oder Operation — the Russian winter offensive, that five months later led to the defeat of Germany and the end of the European part of World War II, started with the German and Russian attack on Poland in 09.1939.
As a result of the rapid breakthrough of the front, the Russians very quickly began to move the battle line to the west, through the territories of occupied by the Germans Poland.
Already on 20.01.1945, the Germans began a panic evacuation of the administrative authorities and civilian German residents of Poznań, planning to turn the city into a heavily defended fortress Festung Posen — on 22.01.1945, the Germans also issued an order to evacuate the Poles, but they mostly ignored the order.
A day later, the Russians approached the city, hoping to take it „on the move”.
However, this did not happen — the armored attack was stopped and after a few days the Russians decided to outflank and surround the city, starting its siege by the Russian infantry.
It lasted about a month and ended on 23.02.1945 with the repulsion of the Germans — during the battle c, 5,000 Russians and 3,000 Germans died.
In 01.1945, when she died, most of the town remained in German hands — also the northern Winiary neighborhood, where the Congretaion's motherhouse was located (on c. 24.01.1945, the Germans repelled an attempt to capture the town from the north, stopping the Russian attack in Naramowice, c. 2 km north from Winiary).
There were no nuns in the Congregation's motherhouse.at that time — the nuns were evicted from it three four years earlier on 11.01.1941 and the building was occupied by a battalion of Hungarian cadets who fought alongside the Germans: after the house was captured, 40 of them were murdered by the Russians.
cause of death
murder
perpetrators
Germans / Russians
sites and events
Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description
date and place
of birth
1913
positions held
c. 1945
novitiate — Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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others related
in death
DERKACZEWSKAClick to display biography Stanislava (Sr Raphaella of the Holy Face), OSSOWSKAClick to display biography Ottilia (Sr Cirilla), POLITYCKAClick to display biography Mary (Sr Seraphina), ZIEMIAŁKOWSKAClick to display biography Hedwig (Sr Dominica of the Sacred Wounds of Jesus)
sites and events
descriptions
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
bibliographical:
„Archives of Congregation of the Shepherdess' Sisters of Divine Providence CSDP”, thanks to Sr Flavia Paciorek CSDP (private correspondence, 24.03.2023)
„Martyrology of the Polish Roman Catholic clergy under nazi occupation in 1939‐1945”, Victor Jacewicz, John Woś, vol. I‐V, Warsaw Theological Academy, 1977‐1981
„A martyrology of Polish clergy under German occupation, 1939‐1945”, Fr Szołdrski Vladislaus CSSR, Rome 1965
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