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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland
XX century (1914 – 1989)
personal data
surname
MATZNER
surname
versions/aliases
MACNER
forename(s)
Stanislav Clement (pl. Stanisław Klemens)
function
diocesan priest
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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diocese / province
Przemyśl diocesemore on
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[access: 2013.02.15]
RC Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
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[access: 2014.12.20]
honorary titles
Gold „Cross of Merit”more on
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[access: 2019.04.16]
Ten Years of Independence Medalmore on
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[access: 2019.10.13]
Commemorative Medal for War of 1918–21more on
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[access: 2019.10.13]
date and place
of death
1940
Bykivnyatoday: part of Kiev, Kiev city rai., Kiev city obl., Ukraine
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alt. dates and places
of death
05.1940, 22.10.1940, 11.1940
details of death
At the beginning of World War I of 1914‐1918, ministered in Gorlice. On 18.11.1914, the town was captured by the Russians. Regular robberies of property began. On 14.12.1914, the Russians withdrew, but returned again on 25.12.1914. Gorlice became a front–line town. Lines of entrenchments and trenches were built in the area. On 02.05.1915, one of the most important battles of the entire war began near Gorlice. Austro–Hungarian and German troops broke through the front line and led to a panicky escape of the Russians far to the east, to the eastern borders of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
After the return of the Austro–Hungarian authorities, on 01.03.1916 appointed a reserve chaplain in the Army of the Austro–Hungarian Monarchy, and then called up for active service. Served — as a district chaplain — in the south–western counties of the Germ. Militärgeneralgouvernement Lublin (Eng. General Government of Lublin) run by Austro–Hungarians. In 10.1918 was actually in Olkusz and ministerd in an endemic hospital in the neighbouring village of Starczynów — the area was hit by an epidemic of typhoid fever, brought by Ruthenians evacuated from Volyn; c. 6,000 people fell ill, 532 died.
On 01.11.1918, members of the conspiratorial Polish Military Organisation POW in Olkusz took over the Austro–Hungarian military district command in the town, and the next day disarmed the local army company, after which the administration of the district was taken over by the Poles. In the evening of that day, a unit of the rebellious 1st Uhlan Regiment — nominally still part of the Austro–Hungarian Army, but already expressing readiness to join the Polish Army — entered the town. This happened c. 10 days before 11.11.1918, the day of the end of World War I and the rebirth of the Polish state — on that day, in a staff carriage in Compiègne, at the headquarters of French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, an armistice between the Allies and the Germans was signed; on the same day, the Regency Council established by the Germans, operating in the so‐called Germ. Kaiserlich–deutsche Generalgouvernement Warschau (Eng. Imperial–German General Governorate of Warsaw) occupied by the Germans, transferred supreme authority over the army to Brigadier Joseph Piłsudski and appointed him commander‐in‐chief of the Polish army, which de facto meant the rebirth of the Polish state.
At that time, joined the nascent Polish Army. While serving in the hospital in Starczynów, contracted typhoid fever and had to undergo convalescence. After its completion, became a commissioned chaplain of the Polish Army.
After the German invasion of the Republic of Poland on 01.09.1939 (the Russians attacked Poland 17 days later) and the beginning of World War II, got evacuated to Lviv.
There, survived the siege of that city, its capitulation to the Russians on 22.09.1939 and the beginning of the Russian occupation.
From then on, was in hiding.
In late 1939 or early 1940, was arrested by the Russians.
Imprisoned in Lviv.
Further fate unknown — murdered in an unknown place and in unknown circumstances.
His name is on the so‐called «Tsvetukhin's list», i.e. a report that was sent from Kiev to the 1st Special Department of the NKVD in Moscow on 25.11.1940 — one of the available lists of Poles genocidally murdered by the NKVD as part of the mass murder known as the «Katyn genocide» (known also as «Ukrainian Katyn List»). The report contains 3,435 names of people killed on the basis of one of 33 „disposition lists” — lists sent from the NKVD headquarters, based on the decisions of the Special Board of the NKVD, i.e. the genocidal kangaroo court known as the «NKVD Troika», to the local NKVD center responsible for carrying out the executions. The said report states that his name — at No. 1907 — was on the „disposition list” No. 55/4 item 32 (though such „disposition list” has not been found).
None of the people on this „disposition list” were found — they were all murdered by the Russians.
cause of death
mass murder
perpetrators
Russians
sites and events
BykivnyaClick to display the description, «Katyn genocide 1940»Click to display the description, Kiev (Lyukyanivska)Click to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description, Polish‐Russian war of 1919‐1921Click to display the description
date and place
of birth
07.03.1891
Dębicatoday: Dębica urban gm., Dębica pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of birth
01.03.1891, 31.03.1891
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
13.07.1913
positions held
1939
RC senior military chaplain — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.10.09] ⋄ Corps District OK No. I Warsaw, Polish Armed Forces ⋄ St George the Martyr RC military parish — also: administrator of the military parish
1931 – 1939
RC senior military chaplain — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.16] ⋄ Corps District OK No. VI Lviv, Polish Armed Forces ⋄ Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland RC military parish — head of the pastoral region covering the garrisons of the Polish Armed Forces in Lviv, Zhovkva, Rava–Ruska, Sokal, Kamyanka Strumilova, Radekhiv, Brody, Bibrka, Jagiellonian Horodok; also: pastor of the military parish
01.01.1936
RC senior military chaplain — Polish Armed Forces — promotion: in the rank of major
03.10.1927 – 1931
RC military chaplain — Brest on Bugform.: Brest‐Litovsk /till 1923/
today: Brest, Brest dist., Brest reg., Belarus
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[access: 2021.09.29] ⋄ Corps District OK No. IX Brest on Bug, Polish Armed Forces ⋄ St Casimir RC military parish — acting head of the pastoral region; also: pastor of the military parish
24.08.1922 – 03.10.1927
RC military chaplain — Stanislavivtoday: Ivano‐Frankivsk, Stanislaviv/Ivano‐Frankivsk rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano‐Frankivsk obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2020.11.20] ⋄ prison, Command of the Corps District DOK No. VI Lviv, Polish Armed Forces
03.1922 – 24.08.1922
RC military chaplain — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.16] ⋄ House of War Invalids, Corps District OK No. VI Lviv, Polish Armed Forces — commissioned; by decree of the Chief of State of ‐03.05.1922, confirmed with seniority from 01.06.1919 and 26th place on the list of Roman Catholic military chaplains, in the rank of captain; by decree No. L. 3448 of the Commander‐in‐Chief of 16.12.1921, verified with seniority from 01.04.1920 and 25th place on the list of Roman Catholic military chaplains, in the rank of captain
15.11.1921 – 03.1922
RC military chaplain — Kielcetoday: Kielce city pov., Holy Cross voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07] ⋄ garrison, Command of the Corps District DOK No. X Przemyśl, Polish Armed Forces ⋄ Ascension of the Lord RC garrison church
08.1920 – 15.11.1921
RC military chaplain — Kielcetoday: Kielce city pov., Holy Cross voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07] ⋄ Command of the General District DOG „Kielce”, Polish Armed Forces ⋄ Ascension of the Lord RC garrison church (till 1915 and the Russians escape from Polish territory (known as bezhenstvo) Orthodox church) — acting („ad interim”) military pastor
10.09.1919 – 10.08.1920
RC military chaplain — Będzintoday: Będzin pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.12.11] ⋄ garrison, General District OG „Kielce”, Polish Armed Forces
03.07.1919 – 10.09.1919
RC military chaplain — Kielcetoday: Kielce city pov., Holy Cross voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07] ⋄ Command of the General District DOG „Kielce”, Polish Armed Forces
04.01.1919 – 03.07.1919
RC military chaplain — Będzintoday: Będzin pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.12.11] ⋄ Command of the Military District DOW „Będzin”, Command of the General District DOG „Kraków”, Polish Armed Forces — also: from 03.1919 chaplain of the „Będzin” Stage District Command DOE
11.11.1918 – 04.01.1919
RC military chaplain — Olkusztoday: Olkusz gm., Olkusz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07] ⋄ Polish Armed Forces — i.a. chaplain of the endemic hospital in Starczynów
1916 – 11.11.1918
chaplain — Germ. Militärgeneralgouvernement Lublin (Eng. Lublin General Governorate), Austro–Hungarian Imperial Army — district chaplain for Olkusz, Miechów, Dąbrowa, Włoszczowa and the Jasna Góra monastery in Częstochowa districts; in 10.1918 ministered, among others, in Starczynów, c. 8 km from Olkusz, in the local endemic hospital
1913 – c. 1915
vicar — Gorlicetoday: Gorlice gm., Gorlice pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] ⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Biecztoday: Biecz gm., Gorlice pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] RC deanery — also: prefect of elementary schools
1909 – 1913
student — Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] ⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary
others related
in death
BĄCZKOWSKIClick to display biography Thaddeus, TELEŻYŃSKIClick to display biography Michael, TYSZKAClick to display biography Michael, NIEIZWIESTNYClick to display biography Anatol
sites and events
descriptions
Bykivnya: In 1940 Russians executed in Kiev, in 17 Korolyenky Str. building, an unknown number of Poles (POWs) — on a so‐called „Ukrainian death list” there are 3,435 names; the other quoted number is 4,181). The bodies were buried prob. in a forest in Bykivnya n. Kiev. This was a fulfillment of Russian Commie‐Nazi government decision — Political Bureau of the Russian Commie‐Nazi party of 05.03.1940 — to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and individuals held in Russian POW camps following Ribbentrop‐Molotov German‐Russian accord and annexation of half of Poland into Russia, confirmed by the order No.00350 of the head of the NKVD, Mr Lavrentyi Beria, on the „discharge of NKVD prisons” in Ukraine and Belarus. There are indications — i.e. 4 so‐called „NKVD‐Gestapo Methodical Conferences” of 1939‐1940: in Brześć on Bug, Przemyśl, Zakopane and Cracow — of close collaboration between Germans and Russians in realization of plans of total extermination of Polish nation, its elites in particular — decision that prob. was confirmed during meeting of socialist leaders of Germany: Mr Heinrich Himmler, and Russia: Mr Lavrentyi Beria, in another German leader’s hunting lodge: Mr Hermann Göring, in Rominty in Romincka Forest in East Prussia. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.10], pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.10])
«Katyn genocide 1940»: On 05.03.1940, the Russian Commie‐Nazi authorities — the Politburo of the Russian Communist Party — made a formal decision to exterminate tens of thousands of Polish intelligentsia and military personnel held in Russian camps as a consequence of the German‐Russian Ribbentrop‐Molotov Agreement, the invasion of Poland and the annexation of half of Poland in 09.1939, and the beginning of World War II. The implementing act was order No. 00350 of the head of the NKVD, Mr Lavrentyi Beria, on the „discharge of NKVD prisons” in Ukraine and Belarus. On 03.03.1959, Alexander Shelepin, head of the Russian KGB, described it in a handwritten note: „Since 1940, the Committee for State Security under the Council of Ministers of Russia, has been keeping records and other materials relating to the prisoners of war and interned officers, gendarmes, policemen, etc., people from former bourgeois Poland shot that year. In total, based on the decision of the special troika of the NKVD of the USSR, 21,857 people were shot, of whom: 4,421 people in the Katyn Forest (Smolensk Oblast), 3,820 people from the Starobelsk camp near Kharkov, 6,311 people from the Ostashkov camp (Kalinin Oblast), and 7,305 people in other camps and prisons in Western Ukraine and Western Belarus. The entire operation of liquidation of the above–mentioned was carried out on the basis of the Resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU of 05.03.1940”. The operation — the murders were committed, among others, in Katyn, Kharkov, Tver, Bykovnia and Kuropaty — was coordinated centrally from the NKVD headquarters in Moscow. This is evidenced by the so‐called deportation lists of subsequent groups of Polish prisoners (usually about 100 people) from NKVD camps sent to places of execution, prepared and distributed a few days before the executions from Moscow. It is also evidenced by the earlier deportations of Polish priests from the Kozelsk, Ostashkov and Starobilsk NKVD camps to NKVD prison in Moscow, or their isolation, just before Christmas on 25.12.1939, prob. in order to deprive Polish prisoners of spiritual care at that time — clearly actions controlled from the NKVD HQ in Moscow. There are indications — i.e. four so‐called „NKVD‐Gestapo Methodical Conferences” of 1939‐1940: in Brest on Bug, Przemyśl, Zakopane and Cracow — of close collaboration between Germans and Russians in realization of plans of total extermination of Polish nation, its elites in particular — decision that prob. was confirmed during meeting of socialist leaders of Germany: Mr Heinrich Himmler, and Russia: Mr Lavrentyi Beria, in another German leader, Mr Hermann Göring, hunting lodge in Rominty in Romincka Forest in East Prussia. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.12.15])
Kiev (Lyukyanivska): Russian political prison in Kiev, in the first half of 20th century run by the genocidal NKVD, informally referred to as prison No 1, formally as Investigative Prison No 13 (SIZO#13). It was founded in the early 19th century. In the 20th century, during the Soviet times, the prison church was transformed into another block of cells. During the reign of J. Stalin in Russia, more than 25,000 prisoners passed through it. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.09.21])
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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Polish‐Russian war of 1919‐1921: War for independence of Poland and its borders. Poland regained independence in 1918 but had to fight for its borders with former imperial powers, in particular Russia. Russia planned to incite Bolshevik‐like revolutions in the Western Europe and thus invaded Poland. Russian invaders were defeated in 08.1920 in a battle called Warsaw battle („Vistula river miracle”, one of the 10 most important battles in history, according to some historians). Thanks to this victory Poland recaptured part of the lands lost during partitions of Poland in XVIII century, and Europe was saved from the genocidal Communism. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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