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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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surname

DEMUROW

forename(s)

Steven (pl. Stefan)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Apostolic Administration of Tiflis and Georgiamore on
www.catholic-hierarchy.org
[access: 2021.12.19]

Tiraspol diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]

nationality

Georgian

date and place
of death

23.02.1938

Bakutoday: Azerbaijan
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.03.19]

alt. dates and places
of death

24.02.1938

Tbilisiform.: Tiflis
today: Georgia

more on
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[access: 2020.11.27]

details of death

From 1904 ministered to Catholics in Baku, mainly Poles (in „Coming Spring” novel by renowned Polish writer, Stephen Żeromski portrayed as „Georgian priest”.

In 1930s forced by Russian persecution to go into hiding in private apartments and flats.

Arrested by the Russians on 14.11.1937 in Baku and accused of intelligence gathering and spying for Western powers.

On 11.02.1938 sentenced by genocidal NKVD's kangaroo court to death.

Murdered in prison, prob. in Baku.

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

Great Purge 1937Click to display the description

date and place
of birth

1871

Tiflistoday: Tbilisi, Georgia
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1902

positions held

from 23.05.1926

apostolic administrator — acting („ad interim”)

1904 – 1938

administrator — Bakutoday: Azerbaijan
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⋄ Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish

1902 – 1904

administrator — Perekoptoday: Suvorove hrom., Armiansk rai., Crimea Aut. Rep., Ukraine
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⋄ RC parish

1895 – 1902

vicar — Kutaisitoday: Imereti reg., Georgia
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⋄ RC parish ⋄ Tiflistoday: Tbilisi, Georgia
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RC deanery

sites and events
descriptions

Great Purge 1937: „Great Terror” (also «Great Purge», also called „Yezhovshchyna” after the name of the then head of the NKVD) — a Russian state action of political terror, planned and directed against millions of innocent victims — national minorities, wealthier peasants (kulaks), people considered opponents political, army officers, the greatest intensity of which took place from 09.1936 to 08.1938. It reached its peak starting in the summer of 1937, when Art. 58‐14 of the Penal Code about „counter‐revolutionary sabotage” was passed , which became the basis for the „legalization” of murders, and on 02.07.1937 when the highest authorities of Russia, under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, issued a decree on the initiation of action against the kulaks. Next a number of executive orders of the NKVD followed, including No. 00439 of 25.07.1937, starting the liquidation of 25,000‐42,000 Germans living in Russia (mainly the so‐called Volga Germans); No. 00447 of 30.07.1937, beginning the liquidation of „anti‐Russian elements”, and No. 00485[2] of 11.08.1937, ordering the murder of 139,835 people of Polish nationality (the latter was the largest operation of this type — encompassed 12.5% of all those murdered during the «Great Purge», while Poles constituted 0.4% of the population). In the summer of 1937 Polish Catholic priests held in Solovetsky Islands, Anzer Island and ITL BelbaltLag were locked in prison cells (some in Sankt Petersburg). Next in a few kangaroo, murderous Russian trials (on 09.10.1937, 25.11.1937, among others) run by so‐called «NKVD Troika» all were sentenced to death. They were subsequently executed by a single shot to the back of the head. The murders took place either in Sankt Petersburg prison or directly in places of mass murder, e.g. Sandarmokh or Levashov Wilderness, where their bodies were dumped into the ditches. Other priests were arrested in the places they still ministered in and next murdered in local NKVD headquarters (e.g. in Minsk in Belarus), after equally genocidal trials run by aforementioned «NKVD Troika» kangaroo courts.

sources

personal:
www.catholic-hierarchy.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19]
, www.polonia-baku.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19]
, pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.02.02]
, www.catholic-hierarchy.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.11.24]
, ru.openlist.wikiClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.02.02]
, catholic.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.02.02]

bibliographical:
Fate of the Catholic clergy in USSR 1917‐1939. Martyrology”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin
original images:
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[access: 2019.02.02]

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