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10/31/2018 0 Comments

October 31st, 2018

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"The first of created things is being."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)
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10/31/2018 0 Comments

October 31st, 2018

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In retaliation for the assassination of Schutzstaffel General Franz Kutschera, the German Socialist Gestapo rounded up 17 priests, 14 monks, orphanage staff and orphans, in Warsaw.
One of the priests was Father Józef Florko, imprisoned in Pawiak prison, Groß-Rosen and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps, then Bergen-Belsen, where he died, on February 25, 1945, during the camp's evacuation.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!
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10/30/2018 0 Comments

October 30th, 2018

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Arrested by the German Socialist Gestapo, Father Józef Cyrek was transported to Auschwitz, where he was tortured to death for refusing to resign from the priesthood. He perished on September 2, 1940.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!

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10/30/2018 0 Comments

October 30th, 2018

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"Deus sit ipsum esse subsistens."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)

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10/29/2018 0 Comments

October 29th, 2018

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While still a seminarian, Jan Wojtkowiak was interned in the Verbist Mission House, by the German Socialist Gestapo. After making his first relgious vows earlier than planned, on May 19, he was arrested days later, on May 22, 1940.
Shipped to Poznań, then Dachau death camp and, finally, Mauthausen-Gusen, Father Wojtkowiak was thrown from his bunk by a German kapo and froze to death, on December 25, 1940. His body was burned in the crematorium.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!

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10/29/2018 0 Comments

October 29th, 2018

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"Goodness and being are really the same, and differ only in idea."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)

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10/28/2018 0 Comments

October 28th, 2018

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Arrested by the Gestapo, on November 10, 1939 -- two months after the German Socialists began World War II with the invasion of Poland -- Brother Jan Zając was shipped to Montelupich prison, then Wiśnicz, Auschwitz and, finally, Dachau, on December 12, 1940, where he survived until he succumbed to starvation, exhaustion and exposure, on February 12, 1945, only a few months before the camp was liberated by the Americans, on April 29, 1945.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!

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10/28/2018 0 Comments

October 28th, 2018

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"God's existence includes in itself life and wisdom, because nothing of the perfection of being can be wanting to Him who is subsisting being itself."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)

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10/27/2018 0 Comments

October 27th, 2018

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Days after the German Socialists invaded Poland, Gestapo arrested Father Jan Franciszek Wagner, in Bydgoszcz, on September 8, 1939, tortured him for weeks and then marched him out to the Forest of Gdansk, where he was shot to death in a mass execution, on November 1, 1939.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!

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10/27/2018 0 Comments

October 27th, 2018

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"God is existence itself, of itself subsistent. Consequently, He must contain within Himself the whole perfection of being."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)

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10/26/2018 0 Comments

October 26th, 2018

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"Jesus. Jesus," sighed Father Jan Świerc, as he was tortured to death because he was a Catholic priest. Kicked, whipped, smashed in the eye with a stone, and spine crushed by "Bloody Franz," a kapo in Auschwitz, the Salesian priest perished on June 27, 1941, while working in the death camp's gravel pit one day after his arrival.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!

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10/26/2018 0 Comments

October 26th, 2018

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"God is called the measure of all things, in the sense that everything has being only according as it resembles Him."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)

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10/25/2018 0 Comments

October 25th, 2018

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German Socialist Gestapo arrested Father Jan Szambelańczyk, a philosophy and theology professor in Higher Theological Seminary, in Ołtarzew.
Shipped to Auschwitz, he perished six weeks later from starvation, exposure and exhaustion, on July 2, 1941, and was remembered by fellow prisoners as the Apostile of Hope.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!

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10/25/2018 0 Comments

October 25th, 2018

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"God is uncaused, since He is the first efficient cause."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)

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10/24/2018 0 Comments

October 24th, 2018

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"God is the principle of all being."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)

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10/24/2018 0 Comments

October 24th, 2018

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German Socialist Gestapo arrested Seminarian Jan Stoltmann, of the Society of the Divine Word, and shipped him to Dachau death camp, where he perished, on January 23, 1941, from starvation, exhaustion and exposure.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!

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10/23/2018 0 Comments

October 23rd, 2018

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Because of his charitable and social activities in Poland, occupied by the German Socialist invaders, Father Jan Siuzdak was arrested by the Gestapo.
Shipped to Dachau death camp, where he received number 22536, Father Siuzdak was exterminated, gassed to death in Hartheim Euthanasia Center, on November 18, 1942.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!

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10/23/2018 0 Comments

October 23rd, 2018

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"Since the existence of God is His essence, if God were in any genus, He would be the genus 'being,' because, since genus is predicated as an essential it refers to the essence of a thing."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)

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10/22/2018 0 Comments

October 22nd, 2018

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"The relation between Godhead and God is the same as the relation between life and a living thing. Therefore God is His very Godhead."-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)
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10/22/2018 0 Comments

October 22nd, 2018

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Today is the 70th anniversary of the death of Polish Cardinal August Hlond, the only cardinal to be arrested by the German Socialist Gestapo (under the orders of Heinrich Luitpold Himmler) and remained in enemy custody until freed by the Americans.
But before he was arrested, he was able to report to Pope Pius XII of the invaders' evil:
"Many priests are imprisoned, suffering humiliations, blows, maltreatment. A certain number were deported to Germany... Others have been detained in concentration camps...It is not rare to see a priest in the midst of labor gangs working in the fields...Some of them have even been shut up for the night in pigsties, barbarously beaten and subjected to other tortures...Hitlerism aims at the systematic and total destruction of the Catholic Church in the rich and fertile territories of Poland which have been incorporated into the Reich...It is known for certain that 35 priests have been shot, but the real number of victims...undoubtedly amounts to more than a hundred... In many districts the life of the Church has been completely crushed, the clergy have been almost all expelled; the Catholic churches and cemeteries are in the hands of the invaders...Catholic worship hardly exists any more...Monasteries and convents have been methodically suppressed...all have been pillaged by the invaders."
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!




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10/21/2018 0 Comments

October 21st, 2018

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Already on a blacklist for refusing to sign the racial-defining Volkslista, Father Jan Chryzostom Michałkowski appeared at a local office of the German Socialist Gestapo to plead for the release of an underground catechist.

Arrested on the spot, Father Michałkowski was tortured and shipped to Auschwitz, Buchenwald and then its sub-camp Mittelbau-Dora, where he perished from starvation, exposure and exhaustion, on December 26, 1943.

VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!

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10/21/2018 0 Comments

October 21st, 2018

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"It is said of God that He is life itself, and not only that He is a living thing: I am the way, the truth, and the life."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)
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10/20/2018 0 Comments

October 20th, 2018

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German Socialist Gestapo arrested Father Jan Lesiński, who was shipped to Stutthof concentration camp, where he was killed by gunshot when he defended himself from rape by a German guard, February 7, 1940.

VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!




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10/20/2018 0 Comments

October 20th, 2018

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"Man is said to be after the image of God, not as regards his body, but as regards that whereby he excels other animals...by his reason and intelligence; hence it is according to his intelligence and reason, which are incorporeal, that man is said to be according to the image of God."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)
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10/19/2018 0 Comments

October 19th, 2018

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Arrested by the German Socialist Gestapo, Lazarist Father Jan Jędrykowski was shipped to Dachau death camp, where he was exterminated in a gas chamber, on May 6, 1942.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!

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