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1/27/2022 0 Comments January 27th, 2022 Accused of being a member of the Polish Military Organisation (Polska Organizacja Wojskowa, POW), the Soviets arrested Father Kalikst Butyniec and sent him -- for further interrogation -- to the dangerous Czeka prison in Kiev, where he was murdered during Christmas celebrations, in 1920.
1/27/2022 0 Comments January 27th, 2022 From the #AngelicDoctor
"Divine goodness is the end of all corporal things." #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 1/26/2022 1 Comment January 26th, 2022 After the Nazis and Soviets invaded Poland, in September 1939, a revolutionary committee in the border village of Kołki, who welcomed the invading Soviets, stepped forward and ordered that the ethnic Catholic Poles surrender their weapons. After refusing, several were executed, including Seminarian Wladyslaw Burzynski and his blood brother, Miechyslav, on September 18, 1939.
1/26/2022 0 Comments January 26th, 2022 From the #AngelicDoctor
"Reasonable creatures have in some special and higher manner God as their end, since they can attain to Him by their own operations, by knowing and loving him." #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 1/25/2022 0 Comments January 25th, 2022  After the Bolsheviks took over Russia, Roman Catholic Polish priest Father Konstanty Romuald Budkiewicz -- living in Saint Petersburg, shepherding to the Polish community -- conducted non-violence resistance against the atheist, anti-Catholic movement in the Communist nation. He was arrested, on March 13, 1923, along with Archbishop Jan Cieplak.
Charged with attempting to organize a conspiracy to overthrow the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, being a secret agent for a foreign country, and transgressing of state–church separation laws, Father Budkiewicz was senteneced to death after a show trial. In the early-morning hours of April 1, 1923, between Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday, Father Budkiewicz was executed, shot from behind, as he stepped down into the cellars of the Lubianka Prison. 1/25/2022 0 Comments January 25th, 2022 From the #AngelicDoctor
"The entire universe, with all its parts, is ordained toward God as its end, inasmuch as it imitates, as it were, and shows forth the Divine goodness, to the glory of God." #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 1/24/2022 1 Comment January 24th, 2022 After the 1939 invasion of Poland by Socialist forces -- the Nazis and Soviets -- Seminarian Jan Brzozowski relocated to the headquarters of the Congregation of Saint Michael the Archangel, in Sturga. When expelled, he found sanctuary in Warsaw's theological seminary building, until the Germans forced him to the Pruszków transit camp, where they executed him along with Seminarian Edward Kosztyła and religious Brother Joseph Cisek, on August 9, 1944.
1/24/2022 0 Comments January 24th, 2022 From the #AngelicDoctor
"Every creature exists for its own proper act and perfection...whilst each and every creature exists for the perfection of the entire universe." #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 1/21/2022 0 Comments January 21st, 2022  Accused of spreading religious propaganda, including baptizing children, Father Mateusz Bryńczak was arrested by the Soviets. Tried in a secret, speedy trial by a troika (triad) of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD, predecessor to the KGB), the Catholic Polish priest was banished to eastern Siberia, afterwhich, he perished on April 28, 1936.
1/21/2022 0 Comments January 21st, 2022 From the #AngelicDoctor
"The whole man is on account of an extrinsic end, that end being the fruition of God." #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 1/20/2022 0 Comments January 20th, 2022 During the Soviet winter offensive, the Communists captured the Polish village of Zimnice Wielkie. On January 27, 1945, Red Army soliders stormed into the parish rectory. Before lighting the Catholic church and rectory on fire, they cut off the head of priest Father Karol Brommer, placed it on the end of a pike and paraded around with it.
1/20/2022 0 Comments January 20th, 2022 From the #AngelicDoctor:
"All parts are for the perfection of the whole, as the matter for the form, since the parts are, as it were, the matter of the whole." #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 1/19/2022 0 Comments January 19th, 2022 After the post-World War II subjugation of Poland by the Soviet Union, Communist authorities arrested Father Jan Kazimierz Borysiuk, because he was a Catholic priest. Sentenced to 10 years in a gulag: a Soviet slave labor camp, mostly for political prisoners, which is what Father Borysiuk was because of his Faith. First transported to SibLag (Siberian Gulag, one of the largest), he was transferred to OmLag (Omsk Gulag), where he perished, in 1953.
1/19/2022 1 Comment January 19th, 2022 From the #AngelicDoctor:
"Less honorable parts exist for the more honorable, as the senses for the intellect, the lungs for the heart." #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 1/18/2022 0 Comments January 18th, 2022    After the subjugation of Lithuania by the USSR, Bishop Wincenty Borysewicz was arrested by the Soviets on February 5, 1946, and held in Vilnius prison. Interrogated and tortured, because he was a Catholic bishop, he was accused of "treason of the homeland, collaboration with anti-Soviet partisans, anti-Soviet activities and propaganda." Sentenced to death, he was executed, on November 11, 1946, in Vilnius Prison and dumped in a mass grave.
1/18/2022 0 Comments January 18th, 2022 From the #AngelicDoctor...
"Each and every part exists for the sake of its proper act, as the eye for the act of seeing." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 1/17/2022 0 Comments January 17th, 2022 Having escaped from Poland when invaded by Nazis and Soviets in September 1939, Father Henryk Borynski settled in England, where he ministered to Polish refugees and emigrants. Vehemently anti-Communist, he mysteriously disappeared on the night of July 13, 1953 and was never seen again. Socialist-Communist party hitmen were suspected murderers.
1/17/2022 0 Comments January 17th, 2022 From the #AngelicDoctor...
"Everything was brought into being for the reason that it was good for it to be." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 1/14/2022 1 Comment January 14th, 2022 From the #AngelicDoctor...
"All the creatures of God in some respects continue for ever, at least as to matter, since what is created will never be annihilated, even though it be corruptible...For corruptible creatures endure for ever as regards their matter, though they change as regards their substantial form." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 1/13/2022 0 Comments January 13th, 2022 From the #AngelicDoctor...
"A demon is a spiritual nature.'" -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 1/12/2022 1 Comment January 12th, 2022 From the #AngelicDoctor...
"Sorrow, as denoting a simple act of the will, is nothing else than the resistance of the will to what is, or to what is not." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) |
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