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8/31/2023 0 Comments August 31st, 2023National Socialist firing squads execute ethnic Polish prisoners, in retaliation for the death of one German soldier. 
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8/31/2023 0 Comments August 31st, 2023Returning from celebrating Mass, on May 31, 1928, Franciscan Friar Father José Pérez was stopped by the federal soldiers, who roped the priest and tied him to one of the horses. "We have a bull to sell!" taunted a federal soldier. Forced to go barefoot, he was dragged on the stone path all the way to Tarimoro, where he and other Catholic prisoners were exhibited in the public square. Days later, on June 2, 1928, Mexican federal soldier Colonel Severiano Pineda ordered the execution of the friar. At 5:30 in the morning, Father José Pérez was shot under a mesquite.   8/30/2023 0 Comments August 30th, 2023Ethnic Polish inmates of Pawiak prison, hanged by German Socialists, in Warsaw on Feb. 11, 1944.  8/30/2023 0 Comments August 30th, 2023Andres Romo and Guadalupe Lopez were executed at Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, December 17, 1928. It was during the time of the Cristero War (1926–29), the civil revolt by the Cristeros (Soldiers of Christ) against the anti-Catholic policies pushed by Plutarco Elías Calles, who enforced the anti-clerical articles of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, which sought to eliminate the power of the Catholic Church through persecution and execution.  8/29/2023 0 Comments August 29th, 2023Ethnic Polish Catholic civilians surrender to German Socialists after being arrested as part of a “łapanka” (mass round-up for purposes of immediate deportation), on Parkowa Street in Warsaw, 1939.  8/29/2023 0 Comments August 29th, 2023Father Margarito Flores Garcia requested to be sent to a parish where priests were being persecuted. It was during the time of the Cristero War (1926–29), the civil revolt by the Cristeros (Soldiers of Christ) against the anti-Catholic policies pushed by Plutarco Elías Calles, who enforced the anti-clerical articles of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, which sought to eliminate the power of the Catholic Church through persecution and execution. Not long after arriving in the village of Atenango del Río, he was arrested, roped, and then dragged to be presented to the general, in Tulimán, where the order was given to execute the priest because of odium fidei, hatred of the Faith. Before the firing squad, Father Margarito Flores Garcia requested permission to pray, kneeled briefly, kissed the ground and stood. The guns fired, blasting his head, on November 12, 1927.  8/27/2023 0 Comments August 27th, 2023Arrested by German Socialists, along with 21 friars of the Capuchin monastery on Miodowa Street, in Warsaw, Brother Gerwazy (born Roman Zawada) was shipped to Auschwitz death camp where he perished, June 8, 1942. It was part of the Nazi’s Intelligenzaktion campaign (Intelligence Action, Intelligentsia mass shootings), when ethnic Polish intellectuals -- considered enemies of the Reich -- were massacred, to Germanize western Poland for future annexation, as part of its Lebensraum ("Living Space" needed for the food supply of the German people) propaganda used to justify expansion.  8/27/2023 0 Comments August 27th, 2023Colonel Marcos Torres and his assistant Jose Placencia were executed during the Cristero War (1926–29), a civil revolt by the Cristeros (Soldiers of Christ) against the anti-Catholic policies pushed by Mexican Socialist regime, which sought to eliminate the power of the Catholic Church through persecution and execution.  8/26/2023 0 Comments August 26th, 2023After 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.  8/26/2023 0 Comments August 26th, 2023Father Mateo "Elías del Socorro" Nieves Castillo relocated to a mountain hillside where he administered the Sacraments to his parishioners during the night, so federal soldiers would not find him conducting Catholic activities deemed illegal by the Mexican Socialist regime. This was during the Cristero War (1926–29), the civil revolt by the Cristeros (Soldiers of Christ), who fought against the anti-Catholic policies pushed by Plutarco Elías Calles, who enforced the anti-clerical articles of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, which sought to eliminate the power of the Catholic Church through persecution and execution. Countless faithful were martyred and 4,000 priests, marked as enemies of the State, were martyred in or exiled from Mexico for offering the outlawed holy sacrifice of the Mass. Eventually, Father Mateo "Elías del Socorro" Nieves Castillo was discovered in his mountainous religious retreat, arrested and executed by gunshot on the side of the road. "Long live Christ the King!" were his final words, on March 10, 1928.  8/25/2023 0 Comments August 25th, 2023Arrested by German Socialists in his monastery-turned-concentration-camp in Górka Klasztorna, Father Piotr Zawada was transported to Paterek, where he was executed, November 11, 1939, during the Paterek Massacre in which over 200 ethnic Poles, including teachers, craftsmen, merchants, priests and entire families with children, were executed during the in October and November 1939. The Paterek Massacre was only one during the Intelligenzaktion (Intelligence Action, Intelligentsia mass shootings), when the ethnic Polish intellectuals -- considered enemies of the Reich -- were massacred, to Germanize western Poland for future annexation, as part of its Lebensraum ("Living Space" needed for the food supply of the German people) propaganda used to justify expansion.  8/25/2023 0 Comments August 25th, 2023Ordered by the government to operate his parish church as an arm of the Mexican Socialist regime, separate from the Vatican, Father Miguel de la Mora de la Mora refused and went underground in order to minister to his parishioners. For a while he went undetected, until one day. "You're the priest!" hollered a man who recognized the priest. "Yes, I am," admitted the priest, dressed in peasants clothing, during the Cristero War, when Catcholicism and Catholics were outlawed. Arrested, the priest was presented to General José Ignacio Flores, who ordered the execution of the Catholic clergyman. As he walked to his death, by the stables, he pulled his rosary from his pocket and began praying. Ordered on top of a pile of manure, the priest continued to pray as his body received a spray of bullets, and he collapsed upon the manure, at twelve o'clock on August 7, 1927.  8/24/2023 0 Comments August 24th, 2023First jailed Bodzanów church by German Socialists, Father Julian Zalewski was transported to Płock prison and then to Soldau concentration camp, where his hands and legs were bound with a wire and tied to a car driven sadistically several times around the camp yard, where the priest's body bashed into boulders at each of the four corners until he perished, sometime in 1941.  8/24/2023 0 Comments August 24th, 2023"I am a priest," responded Father Rodrigo Aguilar Alemán, when asked by the soldiers of General Juan B. Izaguirre to identify himself. Ordered to be hanged in Ejutla's central square because he was a Catholic priest, outlawed during the Cristero War, he blessed his hanging rope, pardoned his executioners and gave his rosary to one of them. "Long live who?" asked a soldier who informed him that he could save himself by shouting, "Long live the Supreme Government!" Father Rodrigo Aguilar Alemán shouted, "Christ the King and Our Lady of Guadalupe!” three times before he was hanged for his faith, on October 27, 1927.   8/20/2023 0 Comments August 20th, 2023Capuchin Father Aleksander (born Wincenty Zaręba) was arrested by German Socialists, along with 21 monks from the monastery, on Warsaw's Miodowa Street. Shipped to Auschwitz death camp, he perished from starvation, exposure and exhaustion, on December 10, 1941.  8/20/2023 0 Comments August 20th, 2023When the Mexican government ordered the closing of Catholic churches and outlawed the religion and its practictioners, Father Roman Adame Rosales continued his ministry in private homes. Eventually, he was captured and tortured by federal soldiers. Tied to a post without water or food, after several days, he was taken to an open grave. There he was executed by a firing squad, on April 21, 1927. One of the soldiers, Antonio Carillo, refused to shoot the priest, so his fellow soldiers shot him, too.  8/19/2023 0 Comments August 19th, 2023Sister Janina Zakościelna perished on the day, September 1, 1939, that the German Socialists invaded Catholic-majority Poland. During the bombing raid on Wieluń, she died buried under the rubble of the hospital that had been marked with the Red Cross.  8/19/2023 0 Comments August 19th, 2023Before the firing squad was ordered to shoot, Father Miguel Pro raised his arms (with a rosary in one hand and a crucifix in the other) in imitation of Christ and shouted the defiant cry of the Cristeros, "Viva Cristo Rey!" – "Long live Christ the King!" November 23, 1927.  8/16/2023 0 Comments August 16th, 2023Victim of the German Socialist Nazi Intelligenzaktion (Intelligence Action) against the Catholic, ethnic Polish, anti-Socialist intellectuals, Father Tadeusz Marian Zapałowski was arrested and held for a short time in Kartuzy before transported to Kaliski Forest, where he was executed, on November 22, 1939.  8/16/2023 0 Comments August 16th, 2023With the body of Father Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez lying nearby, Luis Segura Vilchis, a prominent member of the Catholic Association of Mexican Youth, faces a Mexican firing squad, November 23, 1927.  8/15/2023 0 Comments August 15th, 2023Arrested by German Socialists (Nazis), Father Piotr Zakryś and 29 fellow priests were taken to the Szpęgawski Forest where they were ordered into a death pit, four at a time. The first had to lie down with their hands on their foreheads or on the ground. The next were forced to lie down on the bloodied bodies of their confreres. Each shot in the back of the neck at the base of the head, October 16, 1939.  8/15/2023 0 Comments August 15th, 2023 Mexican soldiers flayed the skin from the soles of Jose Luis Sanchez del Rio’s feet, while he shouted “Viva Cristo Rey!” Forced to walk barefoot to the cemetery, the 14-year-old Cristero was sliced with a machete, as the Federales for the Socialist regime said, “If you shout ‘Death to Christ the King,’ we will spare your life,” to which he responded, “I will never give in. Viva Cristo Rey! Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe!” At the cemetery, before a freshly dug grave, soldiers stabbed him with bayonets. After each stab, he shouted, “Viva Cristo Rey!” before he was shot in the head and then fell in the open grave, February 10, 1928. 8/13/2023 0 Comments August 13th, 2023Arrested by German Socialists, Father Stanisław Zaborowicz was tortured in an effort to extract information from him about the fine art - including a Peter Paul Rubens - that he had hidden. He revealed nothing. Eventually shipped to Sterling prison in Łódź, he was murdered, March 20, 1942, with about 100 ethnic Poles, in one of the largest public executions in then-called Warthegau.  8/13/2023 0 Comments August 13th, 2023Shot by a firing squad after offering the outlawed holy sacrifice of the Mass, Father Francesco Vera was one of the 4,000 priests martyred or exiled by the Socialist Mexican regime during the anti-Catholic persecution of the Church in the 1920s and 1930s.  8/10/2023 0 Comments August 10th, 2023Interrogated and tortured by German Socialists, Father Mateusz Jerzy Zabłocki was sentenced to death and executed by gunshot, October 7, 1939, shouting, “Long live Poland!” before his execution.  |
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