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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
religious status
Servant of God
surname
LIPNIŪNAS
forename(s)
Alphonse (pl. Alfons)
forename(s)
versions/aliases
Alfonsas
function
diocesan priest
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
diocese / province
Vilnius archdiocesemore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]
Poniewież diocesemore on
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[access: 2017.11.07]
academic distinctions
Bachelor of Theology
nationality
Lithuanian
date and place
of death
28.03.1945
Pucktoday: Puck gm., Puck pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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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 German occupation, arrested by the Germans on 16.03.1943 for open admonition and criticism of those stealing Jewish property and participating in acts of violence against the Jews, and opposing the conscription of young Lithuanians to the German SS troops.
According to Lithuanian sources, a statement from one of his sermons, referring to the Russian occupation of Lithuania and Vilnius in the years 1940‑1941, gained publicity: „So far it has not been possible to buy Lithuanian youth.
Neither with tobacco nor alcohol.
It won't happen now either!” Jailed in Kowno prison.
Next, through Tilžė, transported — with a death sentence — to KL Stutthof concentration camp.
On 25.01.1945 herded in a „death march” out of Stutthof to Puck.
There survived till Russian advance.
Totally exhausted perished soon after in a overcrowded hospital from a typhoid contracted earlier.
cause of death
extermination: exhaustion, starvation, typhus
perpetrators
Germans
date and place
of birth
12.03.1905
Talkoniaitoday: Pumpėnai eld., Pasvalys dist., Panevėžys Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2020.07.31]
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
14.06.1930
positions held
till 1943
rector {parish: Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.01.06], Gate of Dawn St Therese the Virgin; chapel: Miraculous Image of the Blessed Virgin Mary; dean.: Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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1942 – 1943
chaplain {church: Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.01.06], academical St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist; dean.: Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.01.06]}
1942 – 1943
professor {Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.01.06], Theological Seminary}, sociology and pastoral theology lecturer
1942 – 1943
lector {Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.01.06], Pedagogical Institute}
from 1940
priest {Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.01.06], Vilnius University (since 1945), Lithuanian (1939‑40), Stephen Batory University (1919‑39)}, academic
c. 1939
lecturer {Panevėžystoday: Panevėžys eld., Panevėžys dist., Panevėžys Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2020.11.13], Pedagogical Institute}
1937 – 1939
student {Paristoday: Paris dep., Île–de–France reg., France
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[access: 2020.11.13], Institut Catholique (Eng. Catholic University)}, studies on issues related to Catholic Action
1935 – 1937
student {Lilletoday: Lille arr., Nord dep., Hauts–de–France reg., France
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[access: 2022.07.18], sociology, Université de Lille (Eng. Lille University)}
till 1932
student {Kaunastoday: Kaunas city dist., Kaunas Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.06.29], Department of Theology and Philosophy, Vitold the Great' University (from 1930), University of Lithuania (1922‑30)}, post–graduate studies completed with a bachelor's degree in theology
from 1930
vicar {church: Panevėžystoday: Panevėžys eld., Panevėžys dist., Panevėžys Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2020.11.13], cathedral Christ the King}
1925 – 1930
student {Kaunastoday: Kaunas city dist., Kaunas Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.06.29], philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary}
author of articles, i.a. in „Ateitis” (Eng. „Future”) , „Ateities spinduliai” (Eng. „Rays of the future”), „Pavasaris” (Eng. „Spring”), „Židinys” (Eng. „Fireplace”) magazines, books for youth; also: translator into Lithuanian
murder sites
camp
(+ prisoner no)
KL Stutthof (prisoner no: 21332Click to display biography): In KL Stutthof (then in Eastern Prussian belonging to Germany, today: Sztutowo village) concentration camp, that Germans started to build on 02.09.1939, a day after German invasion of Poland and start of the II World War, Germans held c. 100‑127 thousands prisoners from 28 countries, including 47 thousands women and children. C. 65,000 victims were murdered and exterminated. In the period of 25.01–27.04.1945 in the face of approaching Russian army Germans evacuated the camp. When on 09.05.1945 Russians soldiers entered the camp only 100 prisoners were still there. In an initial period (1939‑40) Polish Catholic priests from Pomerania were held captive there before being transported to KL Dachau concentration camp. Some of them were murdered in KL Stutthof or vicinity (for instance in Stegna forest). Also later some Catholic priests were held in KL Stutthof. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.07.06])
Help to the Jews: During II World War on the Polish occupied territories Germans forbid to give any support to the Jews under penalty of death. Hundreds of Polish priests and religious helped the Jews despite this official sanction. Many of them were caught and murdered. (more on: www.naszdziennik.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.31])
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.glaukopis.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23], www.puckiegimnazjum.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.03.10], www.facebook.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19]
bibliograhical:, „Vilnius archdiocese clergy martyrology 1939‑1945”, Fr Thaddeus Krahel, Białystok, 2017,
original images:
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[access: 2014.03.10], paneveziokatedra.ltClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2017.05.20], newsaints.faithweb.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2017.05.20], www.bernardinai.ltClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2017.05.20], www.lipniunas.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2017.05.20], lipniunas.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.03.12], www.wladek.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.04.16], www.panoramio.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.03.10], paneveziokatedra.ltClick to attempt to display webpage
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