11/30/2018 0 Comments November 30th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"The divine essence cannot be known through the nature of material things." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)
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11/30/2018 0 Comments November 30th, 2018German Socialist Gestapo arrested Father Michał Jachimczak, who was tortured in Montelupich prison, shipped to Auschwitz death camp and then transferred to Dachau death camp, where, while in the camp hospital, he was executed, on January 30, 1941, with a lethal injection.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 11/29/2018 0 Comments November 29th, 2018Arrested by German Socialist Gestapo, Father Marian Morawski was shipped to Auschwitz death camp, where, among other tortures, he was thrown onto a barbed-wire fence, suffering severe injuries. When he gave support to a Jew who fell during work, Father Morawski was beaten to death by a German guard.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 11/29/2018 0 Comments November 29th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"Our soul, as long as we live in this life, has its being in corporeal matter." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 11/28/2018 0 Comments November 28th, 201811/28/2018 0 Comments November 28th, 201811/27/2018 0 Comments November 27th, 2018Swept up in the German Socialist movement to exterminate Polish Catholic intellectuals, Father Ludwik Olszewski was arrested by the Gestapo, on July 15, 1943, Black July, and executed the same day in a mass execution.
With Father Olszewski, his sister, Maria, voluntarily went to death. Also killed were Father Antoni Besztą-Borowski and Father Henryk Opiatowski. VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 11/27/2018 0 Comments November 27th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"The created intellect of one who sees God is assimilated to what is seen in God, inasmuch as it is united to the divine essence, in which the similtudes of all things pre-exist." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 11/26/2018 0 Comments November 26th, 2018After the German Socialist death troops invaded Poland, Father Ludwik Mroczek became involved with the Polish underground Armed Struggle Association ZWZ, part of the Polish Underground State.
While in the chapel of the Salesian seminary in Krakow-Łosiówka, he was arrested by the German Socialist Gestapo and shipped to Auschwitz death camp, where he was beaten, tortured and subsequently perished, on January 5, 1942, from his wounds. VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 11/26/2018 0 Comments November 26th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"Those who see the divine essence see what they see in God not by any likeness, but by the divine essence itself united to their intellect." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 11/25/2018 0 Comments November 25th, 2018Arrested by the German Socialist Gestapo in the first weeks of World War II, Father Leonard Marchlewski was shipped to Sachsenhausen death camp, where he was killed by two kapos, who forced his head into a latrine and then beat him to death with steal wire, on June 21, 1940.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 11/25/2018 0 Comments November 25th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"God...Who is the fount and principle of all being and of all truth." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 11/24/2018 0 Comments November 24th, 201811/24/2018 0 Comments November 24th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"He who sees God's essence, sees in Him that He exists infinitely, and is infinitely knowable." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 11/23/2018 0 Comments November 23rd, 201811/23/2018 0 Comments November 23rd, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"The blessed possess these three things in God; because they see Him, and in seeing him, possess Him as present, having the power to see Him always; and possessing Him, they enjoy Him as the ultimate fulfillment of desire." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 11/20/2018 0 Comments November 20th, 201811/20/2018 0 Comments November 20th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"Eternal life consists in the vision of God." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 11/19/2018 0 Comments November 19th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"The created intellect cannot see the essence of God, unless God by His grace unites Himself to the created intellect, as an object made intelligible to it." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 11/19/2018 0 Comments November 19th, 2018Salesian Father Kazimierz Wojciechowski was arrested by the German Socialist Gestapo. On his second day in Auschwitz, he was assigned to work in the gravel pits, where German kapo Józef Mitas forced a giant beam onto the necks of Father Wojciechowski and Father Franciszek Harazim. Both perished from crushed throats, on June 27, 1941.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 11/18/2018 0 Comments November 18th, 2018Although the German Socialists forbid anyone in occupied Poland to rescue Jews -- under penalty of death -- many did, including Father Kazimierz Smoroński, arrested for doing so. Beaten by the Gestapo, he was shipped to Auschwitz, beaten more, tortured, starved, exposed to the elements and left to die, on May 21, 1942.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 11/18/2018 0 Comments November 18th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"Our soul possesses two cognitive powers; one is the act of a corporeal organ, which naturally knows things existing in individual matter; hence sense knows only the singular. But there is another kind of cognitive power in the soul, called the intellect, and this is not the act of any corporeal organ." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 11/17/2018 0 Comments November 17th, 2018Arrested by German Socialist Gestapo during a push to eliminate Polish Catholic intellectuals, Father Kazimierz Pieniążek was executed the next day, on April 2, 1940, in a massacre carried out near the village of Palmiry on the outskirts of the Kampinos Forest.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 11/17/2018 0 Comments November 17th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"The mode of being of things is manifold. For some things have being only in this one individual matter; as all bodies. But others are subsisting natures, not residing in matter at all, which, however, are not their own existence, but receive it: and these are the incorporeal beings, called ANGELS." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 11/16/2018 0 Comments November 16th, 2018 |
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