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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
surname
PILCH
forename(s)
Louis (pl. Ludwik)
function
religious cleric
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
congregation
Confederation of Oratories of Saint Philip Neri COrmore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]
(i.e. Oratorian Fathers)
diocese / province
Tarnów diocesemore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]
Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
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[access: 2014.12.20]
date and place
of death
03.12.1943
KL Auschwitzconcentration camp
today: Oświęcim, Oświęcim gm., Oświęcim pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.01.09]
alt. dates and places
of death
02.12.1943, 04.12.1943
details of death
On 01.1919 appointed reserve chaplain of the Polish Armed Forces.
Held this position during the Polish–Russian war of 1919‑1921.
After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start of German occupation, arrested by the Germans on 07.08.1943.
After midnight, the German soldiers and agents of German political police Gestapo rounded up the inhabitants of Studzianna village, arrested c. 30 villagers, shot some of them, then broke into the house of the Congregation and arrested three priests.
For two weeks kept and tortured in Tomaszów Mazowiecki prison.
Next on 23.08.1943 transported to KL Auschwitz concentration camp where he soon perished.
cause of death
extermination: exhaustion and starvation
perpetrators
Germans
date and place
of birth
06.08.1883
Bielczatoday: Borzęcin gm., Brzesko pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
29.06.1910 (Tarnów cathedral)
positions held
1939 – 1943
friar and parish vicar — Studziannatoday: Poświętne gm., Opoczno pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.12.10] ⋄ Society's house (oratory), Oratorian Fathers Cor ⋄ St Philip Neri and St John the Baptist RC parish ⋄ Opocznotoday: Opoczno gm., Opoczno pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.29] RC deanery
1939
friar — Novyi Oleksynetstoday: Lopushne hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.12.10] ⋄ Society's house (oratory), Oratorian Fathers Cor
1933 – 1939
friar and parish vicar — Studziannatoday: Poświętne gm., Opoczno pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.12.10] ⋄ Society's house (oratory), Oratorian Fathers Cor ⋄ St Philip Neri and St John the Baptist RC parish ⋄ Opocznotoday: Opoczno gm., Opoczno pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.29] RC deanery
1930 – c. 1932
friar and parish prefect — Studziannatoday: Poświętne gm., Opoczno pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.12.10] ⋄ Society's house (oratory), Oratorian Fathers Cor ⋄ St Philip Neri and St John the Baptist RC parish ⋄ Opocznotoday: Opoczno gm., Opoczno pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.29] RC deanery
01.09.1930
accession — Oratorian Fathers Cor
1929 – 1930
administrator — Krzyżanowicetoday: Bochnia gm., Bochnia pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.08.05] ⋄ St Joachim RC parish ⋄ Bochniatoday: Bochnia urban gm., Bochnia pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] RC deanery
1924 – 1929
parish priest — Mędrzechówtoday: Mędrzechów gm., Dąbrowa Tarnowska pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] ⋄ Queen of the Polish Crown RC parish ⋄ Dąbrowa Tarnowskatoday: Dąbrowa Tarnowska gm., Dąbrowa Tarnowska pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.19] RC deanery
1923 – 1924
curatus/rector/expositus — Rudatoday: Radomyśl Wielki gm., Mielec pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.12.10] ⋄ Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel RC church ⋄ Radomyśl Wielkitoday: Radomyśl Wielki gm., Mielec pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01], Transfiguration of the Lord RC parish ⋄ Radomyśl Wielkitoday: Radomyśl Wielki gm., Mielec pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] RC deanery
1922 – 1923
administrator — Strzelce Wielkietoday: Szczurowa gm., Brzesko pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18] ⋄ St Sebastian RC parish ⋄ Radłówtoday: Radłów gm., Tarnów pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] RC deanery
1921 – 1922
administrator — Rajbrottoday: Lipnica Murowana gm., Bochnia pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.12.10] ⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Brzeskotoday: Brzesko gm., Brzesko pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] RC deanery
1921
administrator — Korzennatoday: Korzenna gm., Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.12.10] ⋄ St Ursula the Virgin and Martyr with Companions RC parish ⋄ Bobowatoday: Bobowa gm., Gorlice pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] RC deanery
1921
administrator — Rożnówtoday: Gródek nad Dunajcem gm., Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] ⋄ St Adalbert RC parish ⋄ Czchówtoday: Czchów gm., Brzesko pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] RC deanery
till 1921
administrator — Siedlcetoday: Korzenna gm., Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.12.10] ⋄ St Tekla the Virgin and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Nowy Sącztoday: Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] RC deanery
from 1919
vicar — Siedlcetoday: Korzenna gm., Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.12.10] ⋄ St Tekla the Virgin and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Nowy Sącztoday: Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] RC deanery
1917 – 1919
vicar — Siedliska—Bogusztoday: Brzotek gm., Dębica pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] ⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Pilznotoday: Pilzno gm., Dębica pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] RC deanery
1916 – 1917
administrator — Wilczyskatoday: Bobowa gm., Gorlice pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] ⋄ St Stanislav the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Bobowatoday: Bobowa gm., Gorlice pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] RC deanery
till 1916
administrator — Żegocinatoday: Żegocina gm., Bochnia pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] ⋄ St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor RC parish ⋄ Limanowatoday: Limanowa gm., Limanowa pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07] RC deanery
from 1915
vicar — Żegocinatoday: Żegocina gm., Bochnia pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] ⋄ St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor RC parish ⋄ Limanowatoday: Limanowa gm., Limanowa pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07] RC deanery
1913 – 1915
vicar — Radłówtoday: Radłów gm., Tarnów pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] ⋄ St John the Baptist RC parish ⋄ Radłówtoday: Radłów gm., Tarnów pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] RC deanery
1911 – 1913
vicar — Szczucintoday: Szczucin gm., Dąbrowa Tarnowska pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] ⋄ St Mary Magdalene RC parish ⋄ Dąbrowa Tarnowskatoday: Dąbrowa Tarnowska gm., Dąbrowa Tarnowska pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.19] RC deanery
1910 – 1911
vicar — Królówkatoday: Nowy Wiśnicz gm., Bochnia pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18] ⋄ St James the Great the Apostle RC parish ⋄ Bochniatoday: Bochnia urban gm., Bochnia pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01] RC deanery
1906 – 1910
student — Tarnówtoday: Tarnów city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07] ⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary
murder sites
camp
(+ prisoner no)
KL Auschwitz (prisoner no: 137707Click to display biography): German Germ. Konzentrationslager (Eng. concentration camp) KL and Germ. Vernichtungslager (Eng. extermination camp) VL Auschwitz was set up by Germans around 27.01.1940 n. Oświęcim, on the German territory (initially in Germ. Provinz Schlesien — Silesia Province; and from 1941 Germ. Provinz Oberschlesien — Upper Silesia Province). Initially mainly Poles were interned. From 1942 it became the centre for holocaust of European Jews. Part of the KL Auschwitz concentration camps’ complex was Germ. Vernichtungslager (Eng. extermination camp) VL Auschwitz II Birkenau, located not far away from the main camp. There Germans murder possibly in excess of million people, mainly Jews, in gas chambers. Altogether In excess of 400 priests and religious went through the KL Auschwitz, approx. 40% of which were murdered (mainly Poles). (more on: en.auschwitz.org.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23], www.meczennicy.pelplin.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.07.06])
Tomaszów: Prison and detention centre in Tomaszów Mazowiecki on Zapiecek Str. (thus the name — „Zapiecek” prison) run by German secret police Gestapo. Place of torture and murder of many Poles during World War II. (more on: www.historycy.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.10.05])
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 Ribbentrop‑Molotov 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 Germ. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate). From 07.1941 expanded to include district Galicia. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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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 Stanislav 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], www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
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Polish‑Russian war of 1919‑1921: War for independence of Poland and its borders. Poland regained independence in 1918 but had to fight for its borders with former imperial powers, in particular Russia. Russia planned to incite Bolshevik‑like revolutions in the Western Europe and thus invaded Poland. Russian invaders were defeated in 08.1920 in a battle called Warsaw battle („Vistula river miracle”, one of the 10 most important battles in history, according to some historians). Thanks to this victory Poland recaptured part of the lands lost during partitions of Poland in XVIII century, and Europe was saved from the genocidal Communism. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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