Roman Catholic
St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland
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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland
XX century (1914 – 1989)
personal data
surname
KOSIBOWICZ
forename(s)
Edward
function
religious cleric
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]
congregation
Society of Jesus (Jesuits - SI)more on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
diocese / province
Lesser Poland Province SI (from 1926)
Polish Province SI (1918—26)
Galicia Province SI (till 1918)
Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
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[access: 2014.12.20]
academic distinctions
Doctor of History
date and place
of death
02.08.1944
Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
details of death
In 1939 nominated state of war chancellor of Military Ordinariate of Poland.
After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II and fall of Poland did not however manage to take up this position.
During German occupation collaborated with Polish clandestine resistance organizations (part of Polish Clandestine State).
Among others under his auspices clandestine ethics lectures for young prospective medicine doctors were run.
Organised clandestine theology stadium for Jesuit clerics in Warsaw where lecturer on dogmatic theology.
His last Lenten retreat preached in Warsaw in 03.1944 was published after the end of the armed conflict, in 1947, under the title „Christianus sum!”.Murdered by the Germans on the second day of Warsaw Uprising — executed by a shot into the back of the head, n. the gardens of Mokotowskie Fields, a part of the mass murder of Jesuits in their Congregation's house at Rakowiecka Str. in Warsaw.
cause of death
mass murder
perpetrators
Germans
date and place
of birth
13.12.1895
Nowy Sącztoday: Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01]
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
24.08.1923 (Ore Place Theological College, Hastings, East Sussex, United Kindgommore on
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[access: 2021.12.18])
positions held
1936 – till 02.08.1944
superior {Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.10.09], „Writers' House” monastery, 61 Rakowiecka Str., Jesuits SI}
from 1936
director {Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09], Jesuit Fathers' Publishing House}
1936 – 1939
Editor in Chief {editorial office, „General Review” monthly}
till 1936
lecturer {Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.06.07], Department of Theology, college (Lat. Collegium Maximum SS. Cordis Iesu), 26 Kopernik Str., Jesuits SI}
1929 – 1936
Editor in Chief {editorial office, „Sodalis Marianus” monthly}
1929 – 1936
Editor in Chief {editorial office, „Faith and Life” magazine}
1925 – 1928
PhD student {Enghientoday: Ath mun., Hainaut prov., Wallonia reg., Belgium
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[access: 2022.08.28], comparative history of religions, Higher Theological Institute, Jesuits SI}, also: minister to Polish emigrants and migrants
1924 – 1936
associate {editorial office, „General Review” monthly}
1920 – 1924
student {Ore Placemanor house
today: non–existent, in Hastings, East Sussex Cou., England, United Kingdom
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18], theology, Theological College (theologate), Jesuits SI}
friar {Nowy Sącztoday: Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.04.01], Descent of the Holy Spirit monastery, Jesuits SI}
friar {Bunkovychin .Khyriv
today: Khyriv urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.11.09], Scientific and Educational Institute in Khyriv (St Joseph's college), Jesuits SI}
friar {Stara Wieśtoday: Brzozów gm., Brzozów pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], Assumption into Heaven of the Blessed Mary monastery, Jesuits SI}
from 01.09.1909
novitiate {Stara Wieśtoday: Brzozów gm., Brzozów pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], Assumption into Heaven of the Blessed Mary monastery, Jesuits SI}
author of i.a. „The Problem of the Pygmy Peoples”, Kraków 1927; and many articles and longer studies in „General Review” and „Faith and Life"
others related
in death
BAJAKClick to display biography Felix, BIEGAŃSKIClick to display biography Anthony M., BOBRITZKIClick to display biography Clement, FUSClick to display biography Joseph, GŁAUDANClick to display biography Adam, GRABOWSKIClick to display biography Zbigniew, LIBIŃSKIClick to display biography Herman, MADALIŃSKIClick to display biography John, ORZECHOWSKIClick to display biography Stanislaus, PAWELSKIClick to display biography John, SZYMANIAKClick to display biography Francis, ŚWIĘCICKIClick to display biography Ceslaus, TOMASZEWSKIClick to display biography Stanislaus, WIĄCEKClick to display biography Vladislav, WILCZYŃSKIClick to display biography Henry, WRÓBLEWSKIClick to display biography Mieczyslav Felix
murder sites
camp
(+ prisoner no)
Warsaw (Jesuit monastery, Rakowiecka st.): On 02.08.1944, the second day of Warsaw Uprising Germans, murdered in the Jesuit monastery in Warsaw on Rakowiecka Str. 44 people, including 16 Jesuits. Most of them died in a basement pelted with grenades and machine‑gun bullets. After the atrocity Germans doused the bodies with gasoline and set fire on them. (more on: www.info-pc.home.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19])
Warsaw Uprising: Lasted from 01.08.1944 till 03.10.1944. Was an attempt to liberate Polish capital from occupying Germans by the Polish Clandestine State — a unique in the history of the world political structure on the territories occupied by the Germans, effectively governing clandestinely in Poland — and by fighting on its behalf underground military units, mainly of Home Army (former Armed Struggle Association ZWZ) and National Armed Forced (NSZ). At the same time Russians stopped on purpose the offensive on all front, halted on the other bank of Vistula river and watched calmly the annihilation of the city, refusing even the mid–landing rights to the Allied planes carrying weapons and supplies to the insurgents from Italy. During the Uprising Germans murdered approx. 200,000 Poles, mainly civilians. Approx. 200 priests and nuns died in fighting or were murdered by the Germans, many in mass executions. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17])
General Governorate: A separate administrative territorial region set up by the Germans in 1939 after defeat of Poland, which included German‑occupied part of Polish territory that was not directly incorporate into German state. Created as the result of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, in a political sense, was to recreate the German idea of 1915 (after the defeat of the Russians in the Battle of Gorlice in 05.1915 during World War I) of establishing a Polish enclave within Germany (also called the General Governorate at that time). It was run by the Germans till 1945 and final Russian offensive, and was a part of so–called Big Germany — Grossdeutschland. Till 31.07.1940 formally known as Germ. Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete (Eng. General Governorate for occupied Polish territories) — later as simply niem. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate). From 07.1941 expanded to include district Galicia. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.12.04])
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 World War II 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])
Pius XI's encyclicals: Facing the creation of two totalitarian systems in Europe, which seemed to compete with each other, though there were more similarities than contradictions between them, Pope Pius XI issued in 03.1937 (within 5 days) two encyclicals. In the „Mit brennender Sorge” (Eng. „With Burning Concern”) published on 14.03.1938, condemned the national socialism prevailing in Germany. The Pope wrote: „Whoever, following the old Germanic–pre–Christian beliefs, puts various impersonal fate in the place of a personal God, denies the wisdom of God and Providence [...], whoever exalts earthly values: race or nation, or state, or state system, representatives of state power or other fundamental values of human society, […] and makes them the highest standard of all values, including religious ones, and idolizes them, this one […] is far from true faith in God and from a worldview corresponding to such faith”. On 19.03.1937, published „Divini Redemptoris” (Eng. „Divine Redeemer”), in which criticized Russian communism, dialectical materialism and the class struggle theory. The Pope wrote: „Communism deprives man of freedom, and therefore the spiritual basis of all life norms. It deprives the human person of all his dignity and any moral support with which he could resist the onslaught of blind passions [...] This is the new gospel that Bolshevik and godless communism preaches as a message of salvation and redemption of humanity”... Pius XI demanded that the established human law be subjected to the natural law of God , recommended the implementation of the ideal of a Christian state and society, and called on Catholics to resist. Two years later, National Socialist Germany and Communist Russia came together and started World War II. (more on: www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28])
sources
personal:
adonai.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23], college.holycross.eduClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23], www.info-pc.home.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19], www.sacerdospolonus.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.08.14], archive.todayClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19], pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.10.05]
bibliograhical:, „Jesuits on Polish and Lithuanian territory knowledge encyclopedia, 1564‑1995”, Fr Louis Grzebień SI (editor), WAM Printing House, Cracow 1996,
original images:
www.katarzynamaciejewska.euClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.02.15], www.youtube.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19], www.sowiniec.com.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.03.14], college.holycross.eduClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19], www.katedrapolowa.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.01.16], www.miejscapamiecinarodowej.plClick to attempt to display webpage
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