12/31/2018 0 Comments December 31st, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"As His essence itself is also His intelligible species, it necessarily follows that His act of understanding must be His essence and His existence." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)
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12/31/2018 0 Comments December 31st, 2018A Jesuit novice and Scholastic, Stanisław Sewiłło was arrested by German Socialist Gestapo. Shipped to Dachau, he was forced to undergo medical experiments, from which he perished, on March 22, 1943.
One experiment involved hypothermia, submerged in ice water; another was being injected with Tuberculosis. Considered a deeply religious man while in the death camp, he endured all sufferings by submitting to the will of God. VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 12/30/2018 0 Comments December 30th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"In God there is no form which is something other than His existence." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 12/30/2018 0 Comments December 30th, 2018German Socialist Gestapo arrested Father Stanisław Lubas, along with confreres Father Czesław Bróda and Father Tomasz Pacuła.
From Sachsenhausen camp, he was transferred, with a group of 3,000 priests, to Dachau death camp, where he perished, on March 21, 1942, from starvation, exposure and exhaustion. VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 12/29/2018 0 Comments December 29th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"To understand is not an act passing to anything extrinsic; for it remains in the operator as his own act and perfection; as existence is the perfection of the one existing: just as existence follows on the form, so in like manner to understand follows on the intelligible species." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 12/29/2018 0 Comments December 29th, 201812/26/2018 0 Comments December 26th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"The power of God in knowing is as great as His actuality in existing; because it is from the fact that He is in act and free from all matter and potentiality, that God is cognitive." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 12/26/2018 0 Comments December 26th, 201812/22/2018 0 Comments December 22nd, 2018German Socialist Gestapo interned Seminarian Stanisław Kolka along with the clergymen in the Verbist Mission House, which served as a transit camp for priests and religious from the locale.
Seminarian Kolka was locked up in Fort VII in Poznan, then shipped to the Dachau death camp and then Gusen I, part of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp complex, where he perished from starvation, exhaustion and exposure, on ChristMass Eve, December 24, 1940. VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 12/22/2018 0 Comments December 22nd, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"A thing is said to be comprehended when the end of the knowledge of it is attained, and this is accomplished when it is known as perfectly as it is knowable." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 12/21/2018 0 Comments December 21st, 2018"No one can be at the same time a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist."
Pius XI Quadragesimo Anno May 15, 1931 12/21/2018 0 Comments December 21st, 2018Thank you Donal Anthony Foley for the great review of "Blood of the Martyrs: Trappist Monks in Communist China," in The Wanderer online newspaper!
http://thewandererpress.com/catholic/news/featured-today/a-book-review-witnessing-to-christ-in-china/?fbclid=IwAR1vHjgzrOGljbyzIGpsDVVQBoUAeM-c1hNJ9vtL-Dp9XWBLemxRCoZc8Dw 12/21/2018 0 Comments December 21st, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"Knowledge is according to the mode of the one who knows; for the thing known is in the knower according to the mode of the knower." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 12/21/2018 0 Comments December 21st, 201812/20/2018 0 Comments December 20th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"God is in the highest degree of immateriality." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 12/20/2018 0 Comments December 20th, 2018Because he was deputy director of the Philosophy Department of the Society of Jesus in Krakow, Father Stanisław Bednarski was arrested by German Socialist Gestapo during an operation to eliminate Polish Catholic intellectuals.
At Dachau death camp, he suffered torture, on Good Friday, April 3, 1942. With his hands tied behind his back, a chain was slipped through an iron circle on the ceiling, and he was pulled several centimeters off the ground. He perished, July 16, 1942, from starvation, exhaustion and torture. VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 12/19/2018 0 Comments December 19th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"It is not necessary that all the divine names should import relation to creatures, but it suffices that they be imposed from some perfections flowing from God to creatures. Among these the first is existence, from which comes this name, HE WHO IS." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 12/19/2018 0 Comments December 19th, 2018Brother Serafin, born Józef Zwoliński, was arrested by German Socialist Gestapo during a raid on the Cracow monastery of the Congregation of the Brothers of Albertine.
Shipped to Auschwitz and then Dachau death camp, Brother Serafin perished from starvation, exhaustion and exposure, on December 26, 1940. VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 12/18/2018 0 Comments December 18th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"The name HE WHO IS...signifies present existence; and this above all properly applies to God, whose existence knows not past or future." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 12/18/2018 0 Comments December 18th, 2018German Socialist Gestapo arrested Sister Romualda, born Franciszka Grzanka, with the Congregation of the Sisters Servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate Conception.
Shipped to the Nonnenlager-Schmückert concentration camp (mainly for nuns and senior priests), she fell ill with tuberculosis. Offered her freedom, only on the condition that she sign a statement that she would leave the monastic state, she refused and perished, on May 26, 1941. VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 12/17/2018 0 Comments December 17th, 2018SOCIALISM vs. FASCISM vs. COMMUNISM
https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/readers-opinion/article195024719.html 12/17/2018 0 Comments December 17th, 2018The picture was taken on June 26, 1937 in front of the church of Corpus Christi in Kończyce after Mass. priest Roman Kozubek. In the second row from the bottom in the middle, priest Roman Kozubek. Father's parents on the right and on the left. Apart from the father of priest Roman Kozubek, priest Paweł Doleżych is sitting in the parish. Also in the second row from the bottom most probably priest Gerard Kuś. Targeted during the German Socialist Intelligenzaktion -- the action against Polish Catholic intellecltuals -- Father Roman Kozubek was arrested by Gestapo.
Shipped to Sachsenhausen death camp, Father Kozubek -- suffering from starvation, exposure and exhaustion -- fell ill during roll call, was fatally beaten by a German kapo and perished the next day, on May 16, 1940. VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 12/17/2018 0 Comments December 17th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"HE WHO IS, is the principal of all names applied to God; for comprehending all in itself, it contains existence itself as an infinite and inderterminate sea of substance." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 12/13/2018 0 Comments December 13th, 2018Arrested by drunken German Socialists, Father Reginald Krzyżanowski was humiliated and tortured before he was taken, along with 29 other priests, to the Szpęgawski Forest, where the priests were ordered to remove their shoes, crawl on all fours into a ditch and lie down, before they were all executed, shot in the base of the neck, on October 16, 1939.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 12/13/2018 0 Comments December 13th, 2018From the Angelic Doctor...
"HE WHO IS is most properly applied to God." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) |
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