October 21st, 2018

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!