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05-507 Słomczyn
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Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

PIEŚLAK

forename(s)

Alexander (pl. Aleksander)

function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

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

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

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

Lutsk‐Zhytomyr diocese (aeque principaliter)more on
www.catholic-hierarchy.org
[access: 2021.12.19]

date and place
of death

10.1949

Daukszyszkitoday: part of Doilidky village, Gervyaty ssov., Astravyets dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
be.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.06]

alt. dates and places
of death

1954

details of death

During World War I 1914‐1918, after the Russian defeat in 05.1915 in the Battle of Gorlice, prob. as a result of the panic flight of millions of Russian officials and governors in occupied Poland to the east, deep into Russia, known as bezhenstvo, resided, among others, in Nizhny Novgorod.

There, in the years 1916‐1917, ministered among Poles who were part of the refugees.

Prob. returned to the Polish territories, still occupied by the Germans and Austrians, prob. in 1918, after the separatist German–Austrian–Russian (Bolshevik) peace concluded in 03.1918 in Brest–Litovsk.

After the end of World War II, started by the German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1938, remained in the territories after 1944 occupied again by the Russians.

Ministered in the Germanishki parish.

There, the genocidal Russian MGB (the successor of the NKVD) became interested in him.

According to the sources, the internal documents of the MGB stated that he had come „to Germanishki with a task assigned to him by the Vatican. During the conversation, it was established that he had a special task from the Pope passed to him by the former Archbishop of Vilnius Jałbrzykowski”.

This „conversation” was more of an interrogation.

Therefore, in 1948 „disappeared” from Germanishki — it was even assumed that was arrested by the MGB.

It seems, however, that avoided arrest and „went into hiding” in the parish of Daukszyszki.

There fell ill — „could not move on his own, the faithful brought him to church on a chair”.

Perished soon.

cause of death

extermination

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

1876

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1906

positions held

c. 1948 – 1949

priest — Daukszyszkitoday: part of Doilidky village, Gervyaty ssov., Astravyets dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
be.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Ashmyanytoday: Ashmyany dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

c. 1946 – c. 1947

parish priest — Germanishkitoday: Peragantsy ssov., Voranava dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
be.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.01.18]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Byenyakonitoday: Byenyakoni ssov., Voranava dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
be.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.01.18]
RC deanery

c. 1938 – c. 1939

parish priest — Rykantaitoday: Lentvaris eld., Trakai dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Trakaitoday: Trakai eld., Trakai dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.06]
RC deanery

c. 1936 – c. 1937

vicar — Naujoji Vilniatoday: district of Vilnius, Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Casimir the Prince and Confessor RC parish ⋄ Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.06]
RC deanery

c. 1924 – c. 1935

parish priest — Zadevevillage
today: non‐existent, Yarevo ssov., Pastavy dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus

more on
be.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.01.18]
⋄ Transfiguration of the Lord RC parish ⋄ On‐the‐Vilniadeanery name
today: Belarus
RC deanery

c. 1923

deputy dean — Koveltoday: Kovel urban hrom., Kovel rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
RC deanery

c. 1921 – c. 1923

parish priest — Holobytoday: Holoby hrom., Kovel rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.20]
⋄ St Michael the Archangel RC parish ⋄ Koveltoday: Kovel urban hrom., Kovel rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
RC deanery

c. 1921 – c. 1923

administrator — Nabruskatoday: Nova Ruda hrom., Kamin‐Kashyrskyi rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St Peter and St Paul the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Koveltoday: Kovel urban hrom., Kovel rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
RC deanery — acting („ad interim”)

c. 1920

parish priest — Berestechkotoday: Berestechko urban hrom., Lutsk rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Dubnotoday: Dubno urban hrom., Dubno rai., Rivne, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

c. 1920

administrator — Zolochivkatoday: Boremel hrom., Dubno rai., Rivne, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.06.12]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Dubnotoday: Dubno urban hrom., Dubno rai., Rivne, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery — acting („ad interim”)

1916 – 1917

priest — Nizhny Novgorodform.: Gorki (1932‐1990)
today: Nizhny Novgorod oblast, Russia

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.03.19]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Moscowtoday: Moscow city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery — among Poles, victims of the panic escape of Russians in 1915 from Poland into Russian hinterland, the so‐called bezhenstvo

c. 1914

parish priest — Kamin‐Kashyrskyitoday: Kamin‐Kashyrskyi urban hrom., Kamin‐Kashyrskyi rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]
⋄ St Michael the Archangel RC parish ⋄ Koveltoday: Kovel urban hrom., Kovel rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
RC deanery

c. 1910

administrator — Sharivkatoday: Yarmolyntsi hrom., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Our Lady of the Rosary RC parish ⋄ Proskurivtoday: Khmelnytskyi, Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi urban hrom., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

c. 1907

vicar — Chornyi Ostrivtoday: Chornyi Ostriv hrom., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Proskurivtoday: Khmelnytskyi, Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi urban hrom., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

c. 1902 – 1906

student — Zhytomyrtoday: Zhytomyr urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

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

personal:
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[access: 2023.06.12]

bibliographical:
Lexicon of Polish clergy repressed in USSR in 1939‐1988”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin
Vilnius archdiocese clergy martyrology 1939‐1945”, Fr Thaddeus Krahel, Białystok, 2017

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