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St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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religious status

Servant of God

surname

HRACHOVSKÝ

forename(s)

Francis (pl. Franciszek)

religious forename(s)

Norbert

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function

religious cleric

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]

congregation

Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré OPraemmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.03.21]

(i.e. Premonstratensians, Norbertines, White Canons)

academic distinctions

Doctor of Theology

nationality

Czech

date and place
of death

18.01.1943

KL Auschwitzconcentration camp
today: Oświęcim, Oświęcim gm., Oświęcim pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.09]

alt. dates and places
of death

16.01.1943

details of death

During World War I drafted in 1915 into Russian army.

Served in Opawa, Cieszyn and Kraków.

After the Munich Treaty of 1938 and the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia on the German–occupied territories, after the German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and the start of World War II, rested by the Germans on 29.05.1942 with ten co‑religious brothers — in aftermath of the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich, the Germ. Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor (Eng. Deputy/Acting Reich–Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia, German national–socialist thug (27.05.1942).

Interned in Jihlava and then Kounicovy dormitories in Brno.

Finally on 16.01.1943 transported to KL Auschwitz concentration camp where he was murdered by lethal injection.

cause of death

extermination: lethal injection

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

11.09.1879

Kněždubtoday: Hodonín dist., South Moravian reg., Czechia
more on
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[access: 2024.03.19]

religious vows

15.08.1931 (permanent)

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1904

positions held

1926 – 1942

monk — Nová Říšetoday: Jihlava dist., Vysočina reg., Czechia
more on
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[access: 2022.08.05]
⋄ monastery, Premonstratensians OPraem — novice master, monastery librarian and cook

1926

accession — Premonstratensians OPraem

1913 – 1926

resident — Olomouctoday: Olomouc dist., Olomouc reg., Czechia
more on
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[access: 2022.07.18]
⋄ RC parish — secretary of the St Cyril and St Methodius Society with its seat in Velehrad; with a break in c. 1915 for military service during World War I

1909 – 1913

prefect — Kolíntoday: Kolín dist., Central Bohemian reg., Czechia
more on
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[access: 2022.12.10]
⋄ Coeducational Gymnasium ⋄ St Bartholomew the Apostle RC parish

1909 – 1913

student — Viennatoday: Vienna state, Austria
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ philosophy, Alma Mater Rudolphina Vindobonensis (Eng. University of Vienna), i.e. Rudolphina — private studies completed with graduation

administrator — Český Brodtoday: Kolín dist., Central Bohemian reg., Czechia
more on
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[access: 2022.12.10]
⋄ St Gothard from Hildesheim the Bishop and Prior RC parish

administrator — Veltrusytoday: Mělník dist., Central Bohemian reg., Czechia
more on
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[access: 2022.12.10]
⋄ St John the Baptist RC parish

administrator — Račiněvestoday: Litoměřice dist., Ústí nad Labem reg., Czechia
more on
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[access: 2022.12.10]
⋄ St Gall RC parish

administrator — Praguetoday: Prague miasto reg., Czechia
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ RC parish

administrator — SmrkovecSchönficht
today: village non–existent, Sokolov dist., Karlovy Vary reg., Czechia

more on
cs.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.12.10]
⋄ St Adalbert the Bishop and Martyr RC parish

1904 – 1907

PhD student — Praguetoday: Prague miasto reg., Czechia
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ Department of Catholic Theology, Charles University — PhD thesis Cz. „O poměrech v Římě a o způsobu zachování jednoty víry za papeže Lva I. Velikého” (Eng. „On situation in Rome and on the way of preserving the unity of the faith under Pope Leo I the Great”), public defense in 1907

1903 – 1904

student — Praguetoday: Prague miasto reg., Czechia
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

1900 – 1903

student — Olomouctoday: Olomouc dist., Olomouc reg., Czechia
more on
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[access: 2022.07.18]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

author of 12 books, including collections of sermons Cz. „Příležitostné promluvy” (Eng. „Occasional sermons”), Velehrad 1919, Cz. „Filosoficko náboženské promluvy”, (Eng. „Philosophical and religious sermons”), Velehrad 1920, Cz. „Promluvy před šikem” (Eng. „Sermons before chic”), Velehrad 1921, Cz. „Promluvy” (Eng. „Sermons”), Velehrad 1920, Cz. „Blíže k Bohu, promluvy při triduích” (Eng. „Closer to God, sermons before the Triduum”), Hranice 1927, editor of the magazine Cz. „Nový věk” (Eng. „New Century”), monthly Cz. „Meditace” (Eng. „Meditations”), the bulletin of the Society of St Cyril and St Methodius, author of articles in Cz. „Vlasti” (Eng. „Homeland”), „ČKD”, Cz. „Archa” (Eng. „Ark”), Cz. „Vychovatelské listy” (Eng. „Educational Letters”)

others related
in death

NEVRKLAClick to display biography Francis (Fr Siard), NOWOTNYClick to display biography John Baptist (Fr Lawrence), SOUĆEKClick to display biography John Baptist (Fr Paul), ZABIEHRYCKIClick to display biography Henry (Fr Sigismund)

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

KL Auschwitz: German KL Auschwitz concentration camp (Germ. Konzentrationslager) and death camp (Germ. Vernichtungslager) camp 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 death camp (Germ. Vernichtungslager) KL 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]
)

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]
, www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
)

sources

personal:
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[access: 2014.03.21]
, newsaints.faithweb.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.03.21]

original images:
newsaints.faithweb.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.03.21]
, commons.wikimedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.05.30]
, biblio.hiu.cas.czClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.10.13]
, www.vets.czClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.02]
, www.vets.czClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.02]
, www.vets.czClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.02]
, www.vets.czClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.02]
, www.harmeze.franciszkanie.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.03.21]

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