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12/23/2020 0 Comments December 23rd, 2020 During the Soviet offensive of 1945, Father Brunon Bludau and his sister sought refuge in the village Zdrój, captured by Soviets, on February 2, 1945. All residents were marched to nearby Lechowo, where Father Bludau was bound and beaten. Transported to Wystruć transit camp, his sister perished. Shipped via cattle car to the Ural mountains, he died in a slave labor gulag, on May 5, 1945.
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12/23/2020 0 Comments December 23rd, 2020 An "illegal" underground Mass on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, August 15, 1929, when the Holy Mass and the Sacraments were outlawed and priests became enemies of the State during the Cristero War (1926–29), a civil revolt in Mexico against the anti-Catholic policies of the Mexican government, which enacted, under President Plutarco Elías Calles, a statute to enforce the anti-clerical articles of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, which sought to eliminate the power of the Catholic Church. Countless faithful were martyred and 4,000 priests were martyred in or exiled from Mexico for offering the outlawed holy sacrifice of the Mass.
#VivaCristoRey! 12/23/2020 0 Comments December 23rd, 2020 From the #AngelicDoctor...
"Cheribum is derived from knowledge, which is compatible with mortal sin; but Seraphim is derived from the heat of charity, which is incompatible with mortal sin." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 12/22/2020 0 Comments December 22nd, 2020  While on death row waiting to be executed by guillotine, the young Franciszek Blachnicki had a conversion of faith. He survived Auschwitz death camp and World War II to become a Catholic priest.
Later arrested by Soviet Socialists for "spreading false news about the persecution of the Church in Poland,” he served a short sentence and was released. However, he perished, on February 27, 1987, after he was poisoned, it is believed, by Soviet agents. #VivaCristoRey! #NiechŻyjeChrystusKról! 12/22/2020 0 Comments December 22nd, 2020 "LOS DAN NUESTROS TEMPLOS OR LOS TOMAMOS"
"GIVE US OUR CHURCHES OR WE WILL TAKE THEM" Catholic protestors during the Cristero War, when the pro-Communist, anti-Catholic government tried to destroy the Church. #VivaCristoRey! 12/22/2020 0 Comments December 22nd, 2020 From the #AngelicDoctor...
"Cheribum is interpreted 'fulness of knowledge,' while Seraphim means 'those who are on fire,' or 'who set on fire.'" -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 12/21/2020 0 Comments December 21st, 2020 Arrested by Soviet Socialists after the Red Army captured Olsztyn, being a counterrevolutionary because he was a Catholic priest, Father Paweł Bilitewski was shipped in a cattle car to a gulag in the Ural mountains, where he was forced to slave at clearing the forest. He soon fell ill and perished, on April 5, 1945.
#VivaCristoRey! #NiechŻyjeChrystusKról! 12/21/2020 0 Comments December 21st, 2020  "We live for God, and for Him we die," declared Father Agustín Caloca Cortés, his last words before executed by the firing squad, on May 25, 1927, in Colotlán, Jalisco, Mexico.
The 29-year-old priest was arrested by the anti-Catholic, pro-Socialist government, after he had warned seminarians to flee and hide from the approaching federal soldiers. Although offered his freedom, he refused unless freedom would also be granted to his fellow prisoner, Father Magallanes Jara, which was denied. #VivaCristoRey! 12/21/2020 0 Comments December 21st, 2020 From the #AngelicDoctor...
"The demons' sin was pride." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 12/18/2020 0 Comments December 18th, 2020 During the battle of Wrocław, Sister Honoria (born Klara Biksa), tending to the old and infirm women, perished under the rubble of the Archbishop's palace, bombarded by the Soviet Socialists, April 1, 1945.
#VivaCristoRey! #NiechŻyjeChrystusKról! 12/18/2020 0 Comments December 18th, 2020 "I am innocent, and I die innocent. I forgive with all my heart those responsible for my death, and I ask God that the shedding of my blood serves toward the peace of our divided Mexico," said Father Cristóbal Magallanes Jara, as he faced his executioners and absolved them before they shot him to death, on May 25, 1927.
During the Cristero War, the Christian uprising against the oppressive anti-clerical, pro-Communist Mexican government that persecuted Catholics, Father Cristóbal Magallanes Jara was arrested on his way to say Mass. For being a priest, he received a death sentence. #VivaCristoRey! 12/18/2020 0 Comments December 18th, 2020 From the #AngelicDoctor...
"The whole corporeal creation is governed by God through the angels." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 12/17/2020 0 Comments December 17th, 2020   Rounded up by the Soviet Socialists, Father Józef Bieniossek was forced to dig his own grave before he and a woman -- who owned the house where he stayed -- were beaten to death with the butts of rifles, January 29, 1945, in Gogolin, Poland. Their bodies were not found until two years later.
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"Two things have to be considered in sin, namely, the proneness to sin, and the motive for sinning." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 12/15/2020 0 Comments December 15th, 2020 Because he was a Catholic cleric, Capuchin Brother Roman (born Antoni Bałut), he was deemed an "enemy of the people" and arrested by the Soviet Socialists. The following year, during a mass murder of political prisoners, he was executed, on June 25, 1941.
#VivaCristoRey! #NiechŻyjeChrystusKról! 12/15/2020 0 Comments December 15th, 2020 Facing the firing squad, in the Cemetery of Bethlehem, Father David Galvan Bermudez refused to be blindfolded and calmly pointed to his chest, where he would be shot, on January 30, 1915, the same day he was arrested for being a priest.
The Mexican government's anti-clerical stance had begun following the dethroning and execution of Emperor Maximillian, in 1867. #VivaCristoRey! 12/15/2020 0 Comments December 15th, 2020 From the #AngelicDoctor...
"The more a subject is inclined toward anything, so much the less can it fall away from it." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 12/14/2020 0 Comments December 14th, 2020 After Soviet Socialist Red Army soldiers used axes to break into
the convent of Congregation of Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, Sister Gabrielis (born Monika von Ballestrem) was hit with the butt of a pistol and then shot. She perished the next day, April 1, 1945. #VivaCristoRey! #NiechŻyjeChrystusKról! 12/14/2020 0 Comments December 14th, 2020 Standing on the side of the road, Father Luis Batiz Sainz was given the opportunity to save his life.
The pro-Communist, anti-Catholic federal soldiers, armed with guns, told him all he had to do was acknowledge the legitimacy of the virulent anti-Catholic, Mexican government. The priest refused and was shot on the spot, on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, August 15, 1926, in the desolate mountains of Chalchihuites, Zacatecas. #VivaCristoRey! 12/14/2020 0 Comments December 14th, 2020 From the #AngelicDoctor... "In angels, who are not subject to the heavenly movement, which is primarily measured by continuous time, time is taken to mean the succession of their mental acts, or of their affections." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74)
12/11/2020 0 Comments December 11th, 2020   During Polish–Soviet war of 1920, Father Piotr Bajkiewicz was tortured by the Soviet Socialists, who tortured him and cut out his tongue. After the beginning of World War II, he perished after suffering a heart attack, sometime in 1940.
#VivaCristoRey! #NiechŻyjeChrystusKról! 12/11/2020 0 Comments December 11th, 2020 Here I am," said Salvador Lara Puente when the Mexican federal soldiers arrived to arrest him.
A member of the National League for Defense of Religious Liberty, an organization that defended Catholics against the persecution of Mexico's government during the Cristero War, he was arrested during one of its meetings. After driven to the mountains, he realized he was going to be executed, and he walked to the spot, praying in a low voice. Offered his life and his freedom in exchange for his recognition of the legitimacy of the anti-Catholic government, he refused and was shot on the spot, on August 15, 1926. #VivaCristoRey! 12/11/2020 0 Comments December 11th, 2020 From the #AngelicDoctor...
"Spiritual instantaneous movements are represented by corporeal movements which are measured by time." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 12/9/2020 0 Comments December 09th, 2020 While trying to defend the honor of his own sister from rampaging Soviet Socialist Red Army soldiers in his rectory, Father Krzysztof Arnold was shot dead, February 21, 1945. His sister was murdered two weeks later.
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