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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)

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religious status

Servant of God

surname

LITAUNIEKS

surname
versions/aliases

LITAUNIK, LITAUNIKS

forename(s)

Vladislav (pl. Władysław)

function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Riga archdiocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

nationality

Latvian

date and place
of death

24.06.1941

Daugavpilsform.: Dvinsk (1893‐1920)
today: Daugavpils urban mun., Latvia

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after incorporation in 05.1940 of Latvia into Russia, arrested by the Russians on 23.03.1941 while on the way to Feimaņi church whose rector was prob. Fr Casimir Strods and where he was to lead the Lent retreat.

Jailed in Dyneburg prison.

On 22.06.1941, a day before German attack of their erstwhile ally, Russians, „sentenced” by the Russians to death.

Three days later, during Russian panic retreat before advancing Germans executed in prison, in a mass murder.

When Germans entered Dyneburg prison his body was found in new grave with 13 bodies.

Had visible sign of torture — hands broken, cross cut in the chest, nails driven under nails, barbed crown pushed onto head, cut throat.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

06.1941 massacres (NKVD)Click to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

28.08.1909

Bikavatoday: Gaigalava pog., Rēzekne mun., Latvia
more on
lv.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.06.29]

alt. dates and places
of birth

Biernānitoday: Nagļi pog., Rēzekne mun., Latvia
more on
lv.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.06.29]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

23.05.1933 (Riga cathedralmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.02.02]
)

positions held

1941

parish priest — Višķitoday: Višķi pog., Augšdaugava mun., Latvia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.22]
⋄ St John the Baptist RC parish

1937 – 1941

parish priest — Indratoday: Indra pog., Krāslava mun., Latvia
more on
lv.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.06.29]
⋄ RC parish

parish priest — Jaunbornetoday: Saliena pog., Daugavpils mun., Latvia
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[access: 2022.06.29]
⋄ Exaltation of the Holy Cross RC parish

1934 – 1937

rector — Spruktitoday: Naujene pog., Daugavpils mun., Latvia
more on
lv.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.06.29]
⋄ St Anthony of Padua RC church

1933 – 1934

vicar — Rēzeknetoday: Rēzekne mun., Latvia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.10]
⋄ Sacred Heart of Jesus RC parish

1928 – 1933

student — Rigatoday: Riga city mun., Latvia
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

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in death

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sites and events
descriptions

06.1941 massacres (NKVD): After German attack of Russian‐occupied Polish territory and following that of Russia itself, before a panic escape, Russians murdered — in accordance with the genocidal order issued on 24.06.1941 by the Russian interior minister Lawrence Beria to murder all prisoners (formally „sentenced” for „counter‐revolutionary activities”, „anti‐Russian acts”, sabotage and diversion, and political prisoners „in custody”), held in NKVD‐run prisons in Russian occupied Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — c. 40,000‐50,000 prisoners. In addition Russians murdered many thousands of victims arrested after German attack regarding them as „enemies of people” — those victims were not even entered into prisons’ registers. Most of them were murdered in massacres in the prisons themselves, the others during so‐called „death marches” when the prisoners were driven out east. After Russians departure and start of German occupation a number of spontaneous pogroms of Jews took place. Many Jews collaborated with Russians and were regarded as co‐responsible for prison massacres. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19]
)

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

sources

personal:
lv.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.03.14]
, katolis.lvClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.03.14]
, newsaints.faithweb.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19]

bibliographical:
Lexicon of Polish clergy repressed in USSR in 1939‐1988”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin
original images:
lv.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.03.14]
, katolis.lvClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.03.14]
, www.ihtis.lvClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.03.14]

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