Roman Catholic
St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland
full list:
displayClick to display full list
searchClick to search full list by categories
wyświetlKliknij by wyświetlić pełną listę po polsku
szukajKliknij by przeszukać listę wg kategorii po polsku
Martyrology of the clergy — Poland
XX century (1914 – 1989)
personal data
religious status
blessed
surname
CEHELSKI
forename(s)
Nicholas Sava Josaphat (pl. Mikołaj Sawa Jozafat)
beatification date
27.06.2001more on
www.swzygmunt.knc.pl
[access: 2013.05.19]
John Paul IImore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]
function
eparchial priest
creed
Ukrainian Greek Catholicmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]
diocese / province
Lviv archeparchymore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]
nationality
Ukrainian
date and place
of death
25.05.1951
Dubravlag labour campGULAG slave labour camp network
today: Yavas, Mordovia rep., Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.09]
details of death
After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the II World War, after German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russians, and start of Russian occupation, worked with Central Ukrainian National Committee, collaborating with Germans, negotiating with Germans tax issues and enforced slave labour of his parishioners.
After German defeat and start in 1944 of another Russian occupation, after formal dissolution of the Greek Catholic Church by the Russians and its incorporation into Orthodox Church refused to convert to orthodoxy.
Clandestinely continued to conduct his priestly vocation.
Arrested by the Russians on 28.10.1946.
Held in Kopychyntsi, Chortkiv and Ternopil prisons.
On 27.01.1947 tried in Ternopil by a Russian kangaroo court.
Accused of „treason of the homeland” and „organised activities aiming to overthrow the legal regime”).
Sentenced to 10 years of slave labour in Russian concentration camps Gulag.
Through transit cams in Latske Vielkye and Pidkamin transported to N385/16 concentration camp in Yavas n. Potma in Mordovia rep., part of DubravLag concentration camp.
There perished.
His wife and three of his children with their families were also sent to Gulag camps.
cause of death
extermination
perpetrators
Russians
date and place
of birth
17.12.1896
Strusivtoday: Mykulyntsi hrom., Ternopil rai., Ternopil obl., Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
06.04.1925 (Holy Ghost church in Lviv)
positions held
from 1938
deputy dean {parish: Hrymailivtoday: Hrymailiv hrom., Chortkiv rai., Ternopil obl., Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.20]}
1925 – 1946
parish priest {parish: Sorokatoday: Khorostkiv hrom., Chortkiv rai., Ternopil obl., Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.08.05], St Demetrius of Thessaloniki}
1925 – 1927
administrator {parish: Vysypivtsitoday: Ozerna hrom., Ternopil rai., Ternopil obl., Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.08.05], St Paraskeva}
till 1923
student {Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.16], theology, John Casimir University — clandestine, underground /1941‑1944/, Ivan Franko University /1940‑1941/, John Casimir University /1919‑1939/, Franciscan University /1817‑1918/}
from 1918
student {Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.16], philosophy and theology, Greek Catholic Theological Seminary}
married four children
biography (own resources)
Click to read biography details from our resources
murder sites
camp
(+ prisoner no)
DubravLag: Russian concentration camps and slave labour camps complex (part of Gulag penal system) in Mordovia republic, among others in Potma and Yavas village. Organized in 1948 as Gulag special camp No. 3 for political prisoners by merging among other another camp TemLag. In 1954 reorganized into a regular corrective labor camp. Many Ukrainian priests were held captive there as well as Russian dissidents. One of the longest in operation — last of the political prisoners were released in the 2. half of 1980s. (more on: archive.khpg.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.09.21])
Gulag: Network of Russian slave labour concentration camps. At any given time up to 12 mln inmates where held in them, milions perished. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09])
Ribbentrop-Molotov: Genocidal Russian–German alliance pact between Russian leader Joseph Stalin and German leader Adolf Hitler signed on 23.08.1939 in Moscow by respective foreign ministers, Mr. Vyacheslav Molotov for Russia and Joachim von Ribbentrop for Germany. The pact sanctioned and was the direct cause of joint Russian and German invasion of Poland and the outbreak of the II World War in 09.1939. In a political sense, the pact was an attempt to restore the status quo ante before 1914, with one exception, namely the „commercial” exchange of the so–called „Kingdom of Poland”, which in 1914 was part of the Russian Empire, fore Eastern Galicia (today's western Ukraine), in 1914 belonging to the Austro–Hungarian Empire. Galicia, including Lviv, was to be taken over by the Russians, the „Kingdom of Poland” — under the name of the General Governorate — Germany. The resultant „war was one of the greatest calamities and dramas of humanity in history, for two atheistic and anti–Christian ideologies — national and international socialism — rejected God and His fifth Decalogue commandment: Thou shall not kill!” (Abp Stanislaus Gądecki, 01.09.2019). The decisions taken — backed up by the betrayal of the formal allies of Poland, France and Germany, which on 12.09.1939, at a joint conference in Abbeville, decided not to provide aid to attacked Poland and not to take military action against Germany (a clear breach of treaty obligations with Poland) — were on 28.09.1939 slightly altered and made more precise when a treaty on „German–Russian boundaries and friendship” was agreed by the same murderous signatories. One of its findings was establishment of spheres of influence in Central and Eastern Europe and in consequence IV partition of Poland. In one of its secret annexes agreed, that: „the Signatories will not tolerate on its respective territories any Polish propaganda that affects the territory of the other Side. On their respective territories they will suppress all such propaganda and inform each other of the measures taken to accomplish it”. The agreements resulted in a series of meeting between two genocidal organization representing both sides — German Gestapo and Russian NKVD when coordination of efforts to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and Polish leading classes (in Germany called Intelligenzaktion, in Russia took the form of Katyń massacres) where discussed. Resulted in deaths of hundreds of thousands of Polish intelligentsia, including thousands of priests presented here, and tens of millions of ordinary people,. The results of this Russian–German pact lasted till 1989 and are still in evidence even today. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30])
sources
personal:
www.swzygmunt.knc.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19], pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19],
original images:
uk.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.12.26], geografiy-istoriy.blogspot.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.12.26]
LETTER to CUSTODIAN/ADMINISTRATOR
If you have an Email client on your communicator/computer — such as Mozilla Thunderbird, Windows Mail or Microsoft Outlook, described at WikipediaPatrz:
en.wikipedia.org, among others — try the link below, please:
LETTER to CUSTODIAN/ADMINISTRATORClick and try to call your own Email client
If however you do not run such a client or the above link is not active please send an email to the Custodian/Administrator using your account — in your customary email/correspondence engine — at the following address:
giving the following as the subject:
MARTYROLOGY: CEHELSKI Nicholas Sava Josaphat
To return to the biography press below:
Click to return to biography