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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
SCHEBESTA
forename(s)
Joseph (pl. Józef)
function
religious cleric
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
congregation
Society of the Divine Word (ie. Verbite Fathers) (Verbites, Divine Word Missionaries, Steyler Missionaries - SVD)more on
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[access: 2013.05.19]
date and place of death
06.02.1944
between Hansa Bay and Wewak Baytoday: Bismark Sea, Pacific Ocean, Papua New Guinea
details of death
During World War II started by German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939, after the outbreak of Japan–American war on 07.12.1941 and the Japanese attack on the islands, which were then a protectorate of Australia, and today belong to the state of Papua New Guinea (the fighting for the islands lasted from 23.01.1942 to 1945), arrested by the Japanese together with Bogia town and its vicinity inhabitants (including members of the mission house) — on the New Guinea island.
Perished from American bombardment of Japanese positions, when „Yorihime Maru” cruiser ship —vessel commandered by the Imperial Japanese Army for use as a passenger and cargo vessel and armed with anti–aircraft guns — was attacked while moving prisoners from Hansa Bay to Kairiru Island of the Wewak village on the mainland (c. 160 km t the north–east from Bogia mission house, along the coast of the mainland, of the Wewak village — a Japanese garrison was stationed there).
The ship was already under attack in Hansa Bay, from where it was sailing from — replied with fire, in the course of which prob. one of the three attacking US bombers was shot down.
When it reached the island of Kairiru, of the village of Turubu (today there is a Catholic church there) the ship was attacked by c. 12 bombers, which in half an hour neutralized the ship's anti–aircraft guns, killing some of the ship's crew and passengers.
Of the 138 arrested Catholics, 7 priests died with him, including bp Francis Wolf, Apostolic Vicar of Eastern New Guinea, 14 religious brothers, 28 nuns and many civilians, including children.
The damaged ship managed to reach and anchor in the nearby Wewak Bay.
cause of death
warfare
perpetrators
Japanese / Americans
date and place of birth
18.01.1885
Pietrowice Wielkietoday: Pietrowice Wielkie gm., Racibórz pow., Silesia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.01.28]
religious vows
1907 (last)
presbyter (holy orders)/
ordination
1910
positions held
c. 1911 – 1944
priest {Bogiatoday: Bogia dist., Madang prov., Papua New Guinea
more on
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[access: 2022.10.06], Mission House, Congregation of Verbite Fathers}, missionary of the entire Bogia district; translator and publisher of the Catholic Church's catechism and biblical history in the local Bogia dialect
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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 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
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bibliograhical:, „Opole Silesia clergy's martyrology during II World War”, Fr Andrew Hanich, Opole 2009
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