8/15/2023 0 Comments August 15th, 2023Arrested by German Socialists (Nazis), Father Piotr Zakryś and 29 fellow priests were taken to the Szpęgawski Forest where they were ordered into a death pit, four at a time. The first had to lie down with their hands on their foreheads or on the ground. The next were forced to lie down on the bloodied bodies of their confreres. Each shot in the back of the neck at the base of the head, October 16, 1939.
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8/15/2023 0 Comments August 15th, 2023Mexican soldiers flayed the skin from the soles of Jose Luis Sanchez del Rio’s feet, while he shouted “Viva Cristo Rey!” Forced to walk barefoot to the cemetery, the 14-year-old Cristero was sliced with a machete, as the Federales for the Socialist regime said, “If you shout ‘Death to Christ the King,’ we will spare your life,” to which he responded, “I will never give in. Viva Cristo Rey! Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe!” At the cemetery, before a freshly dug grave, soldiers stabbed him with bayonets. After each stab, he shouted, “Viva Cristo Rey!” before he was shot in the head and then fell in the open grave, February 10, 1928. 8/13/2023 0 Comments August 13th, 2023Arrested by German Socialists, Father Stanisław Zaborowicz was tortured in an effort to extract information from him about the fine art - including a Peter Paul Rubens - that he had hidden. He revealed nothing. Eventually shipped to Sterling prison in Łódź, he was murdered, March 20, 1942, with about 100 ethnic Poles, in one of the largest public executions in then-called Warthegau.
8/13/2023 0 Comments August 13th, 2023Shot by a firing squad after offering the outlawed holy sacrifice of the Mass, Father Francesco Vera was one of the 4,000 priests martyred or exiled by the Socialist Mexican regime during the anti-Catholic persecution of the Church in the 1920s and 1930s.
8/10/2023 0 Comments August 10th, 2023Interrogated and tortured by German Socialists, Father Mateusz Jerzy Zabłocki was sentenced to death and executed by gunshot, October 7, 1939, shouting, “Long live Poland!” before his execution.
8/10/2023 0 Comments August 10th, 2023The Hanging Tree — Cristeros lynched, killed for their Faith after suffering at the bloody hands of the Socialist, pro-Communist Mexican regime that persecuted the Catholic Church.
8/8/2023 0 Comments August 08th, 2023Norbertine Father Zygmunt (born Henryk Zabiehrycki) and 10 of his confreres from the monastery were arrested by German Socialists. Shipped to Auschwitz, Father Zygmunt was executed by lethal injection, on January 20, 1943.
8/8/2023 0 Comments August 08th, 2023Father David Uribe Velasco was executed, on April 12, 1927, shot in the back of the head for offering the Sacraments, which had been outlawed by the Socialist Mexican regime during the Catholic persecution against priests and faithful.
8/7/2023 0 Comments August 07th, 2023Summoned with other Jesuits to a German Socialist Gestapo station in Kamienna Góra, all were arrested.
Father Edmund Leopold Ząbek was shipped to Stutthof concentration camp. From there, he was transported to Piaśnica execution site and executed, November 11, 1939. 8/7/2023 0 Comments August 07th, 2023Arrested and jailed for taking Viaticum to a bedridden parishioner, Father Mateo Correa Magallanes was ordered to Confess some prisoners, and then reveal to the Socialist authorities what had been confessed, or he would be killed.
"You can do it, but do not ignore that a priest must keep the secret of the confession. I am ready to die.” Continuing to refuse to break the seal of Confession, he was escorted to the cemetery in the outskirts of Durango and shot through the head, at dawn on February 6, 1927. 8/6/2023 0 Comments August 06th, 2023Arrested by German Socialists for remaining faithful to the Pope and the Church, Father Stanisław Witold Zuske was shipped to Dachau, where he was tortured during inhuman medical experiments until he was transported to Hartheim Euthanasia Center, where he was executed in the gas chamber, August 12, 1942.
8/6/2023 0 Comments August 06th, 2023After saying a prayer in the home of the Agraz family, who hid him from the Mexican Socialists, Father José María Robles Hurtado was arrested and sentenced to be hanged.
Led to an oak tree, he forgave the men for what they were about to do, took the noose into his own hands, said, "Don't dirty your hands," to the man who brought it, kissed it, and placed it around his own neck, June 26, 1927. 8/4/2023 0 Comments August 04th, 2023Arrested by German Socialists, because he was a Catholic priest, Father Wacław Żuchowski was shipped to Stutthof camp and then Sachsenhausen, where he was continuously tortured until he was murdered by the toilets, May 13, 1940.
8/4/2023 0 Comments August 04th, 2023In direct violation of the existing anti-Catholic laws of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, an estimated 40,000 Roman Catholics made their way to the ceremony celebrating Christ as the King of the nation of Mexico, in 1923, atop the summit of Cerro del Cubilete, the approximate geographic center of Mexico, near Silao, in the state of Guanajuato.
8/3/2023 0 Comments August 03rd, 20238/3/2023 0 Comments August 03rd, 20238/3/2023 0 Comments August 03rd, 20238/2/2023 0 Comments August 02nd, 2023Catholic, ethnic Polish inmates of Pawiak prison, hanged by German Socialists, in Warsaw on February 11, 1944.
8/2/2023 0 Comments August 02nd, 2023After the great victory of the Cristeros over the Federales, in the famous Battle of San Julian, the humiliated Mexican regime took revenge.
Days after the defeat of the federal soldiers, General Joaquin “The Indian” Amaro Dominguez marched his troops into San Julian, arrested Father Julio Alvarez Mendoza and executed him on March 30, 1927. 8/1/2023 0 Comments August 01st, 2023Today is the 79th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, when the Polish underground fought to liberate the city from its occupiers: German Socialists.
It was led by the Polish resistance Home Army, from August 1, to October 2, 1944, during World War II. And amidst all the violence the constant threat of death, the very Catholic operation saw many Catholic weddings. 8/1/2023 0 Comments August 01st, 2023"Here is the priest! kill him!" shouted one soldier after Socialist Mexican government troops broke into the bedroom where Father Toribio Romo González slept, at 5 in the morning, February 25, 1928.
"Here I am, but do not kill me," he said. One soldier fired, and the priest rose from his bed and took a few steps until a second bullet caused him to fall into the arms of his sister, who cried out, "Courage, Padre Toribio...merciful Christ, receive him! Long live Christ the King!" 7/30/2023 0 Comments July 30th, 2023While serving in the field hospital of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity, at 30 Tamka Street, in Warsaw, Sister Genowefa Ziarko perished from German Socialist bombardment, August 25, 1944.
7/30/2023 0 Comments July 30th, 2023Humberto Pro Juarez, along with three other Cristeros, were executed, on November 23, 1927, by the pro-Communist Mexican regime that, like all Communist governments, persecuted Christians.
Seconds before his death by firing squad, he yelled, “Viva Cristo Rey!” 7/28/2023 0 Comments July 28th, 2023To serve as a terrifying warning to others from the German Socialists, in Kutno on June 9, 1941, hanged three Catholic, ethnic Polish men — Kalikst Perkowski, Wilhelm Czernecki and Piotr Sanda — from the gallows, publicly executed for smuggling food to Warsaw.
7/28/2023 0 Comments July 28th, 2023Juan Tirado Arias was executed, standing among the bodies of Luis Segura Vilchis and brothers, Humberto Pro and Jesuit priest Father Miguel Pro, ordered under the Mexican presidency of Plutarco Elías Calles, on November 23, 1927, during La Cristiada, the Cristero War, during the anti-Catholic persecution of the Church.
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