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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

LAJAUSKAS

surname
versions/aliases

ŁAJEWSKI

forename(s)

Matthew (pl. Mateusz)

forename(s)
versions/aliases

Matas

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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Kaišiadory diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2017.06.16]

Vilnius diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

academic distinctions

Theology MA

nationality

Lithuanian

date and place
of death

27.06.1941

Molėtaitoday: Molėtai eld., Molėtai dist., Utena Cou., Lithuania
more on
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[access: 2022.06.29]

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the II World, after start of Lithuanian occupation of part of Polish Vilnius county in 09.1939, after Russian annexation of Lithuania in 06.1940 and finally after German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russians, apprehended — though already sick and bedridden — by panic–stricken retreating Russians soldiers — prob. while searching for Molėtai vicar or for listening to radio broadcasts.

Dragged out by Russians, driven out of the town and murdered c. 3 km from it, by the side of road to Utena.

cause of death

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

14.09.1872

Bajorakampistoday: Zibalai eld., Širvintos dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2020.07.31]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

12.04.1897

positions held

dean — Molėtaitoday: Molėtai eld., Molėtai dist., Utena Cou., Lithuania
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RC deanery

1923 – 1941

parish priest — Molėtaitoday: Molėtai eld., Molėtai dist., Utena Cou., Lithuania
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⋄ RC parish ⋄ Molėtaitoday: Molėtai eld., Molėtai dist., Utena Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.06.29]
RC deanery

1911 – 1923

parish priest — Labanorastoday: Labanoras eld., Švenčionys dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.06.29]
⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Švenčionystoday: Švenčionys eld., Švenčionys dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2020.11.13]
RC deanery

c. 1910 – c. 1911

parish priest — Prazarokitoday: Prazaroki ssov., Hlybokaye dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Hlybokayetoday: Hlybokaye dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2021.10.09]
RC deanery

1907 – 1910

parish priest — Raduntoday: Radun ssov., Voranava dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ Blessed Virgin Mary of the Rosary RC parish ⋄ Raduntoday: Radun ssov., Voranava dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.01.06]
RC deanery

1898 – 1906

parish priest — Žaludoktoday: Žaludok ssov., Shchuchyn dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
be.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.10.26]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Lidatoday: Lida dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2021.09.29]
RC deanery

1897 – 1898

professor — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ Theological Seminary

1893 – 1897

student — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ Imperial Roman Catholic Spiritual Academy (1842‐1918) — postgraduate specialised studies crowned with a Sacred Theology Master's degree

1889 – 1893

student — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

others related
in death

MAZURKIEWICZClick to display biography Vincent, STANKIEWICZClick to display biography Sigismund, TUTINASClick to display biography John, VĖGĖLĖClick to display biography Boleslav Balys, WITKIEWICZClick to display biography Francis, BALČIUSClick to display biography Valentine, BALSYSClick to display biography Vaclav, BALTRIMASClick to display biography Stanislav Edward, DABRILAClick to display biography Justin, DAMBRAUSKASClick to display biography Vaclav, DAUGĖLAClick to display biography John, JUKNEVIČIUSClick to display biography Andrew, NAVICKASClick to display biography John, PAULAVIČIUSClick to display biography Constantine, PETRIKAClick to display biography John, RACEVIČIUSClick to display biography Paul, STULGINSKISClick to display biography Vaclav, ŠVEIKAUSKASClick to display biography Benedykt, VANAGASClick to display biography Benedykt

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:
newsaints.faithweb.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19]
, angelorum.ltClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.09.02]
, www.sirvinta.netClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.09.02]

original images:
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