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FATHER JERZY POPIELUSZKO MURDERED BY THE COMMUNISTS 19 OCTOBER 1984 Pope John Paul II said of him; “He died for us, like Christ.” Popieluszko was the son of farmers in a simple village in Poland under the repressive totalitarian rule of the Soviet State. He served his army duty, (2 years compulsory service), segregated into a special force which was aimed to deter vocations to the priesthood; the Soviet methods were to humiliate the prospective priests and seminarians. Lawrence Reed, in his short biography of Father Popieluszko, stated that Popieluszko, "openly disdained the army's coercive atheistic indoctrination. Obedient he was - but not to the authorities. For refusing to relinquish the cross he wore around his neck, he was forced to stand all night at attention, barefoot in the snow. From such frequent cruelty, he emerged with his health permanently damaged, but his spirits higher than ever. The experience reinforced his life's mission, to serve God by resisting evi...

POPE PIUS XII - and the character assassination by those who really were Hitler’s allies:- DIED this day - 9th OCTOBER 1958 At the close of the war, and up to and after his death in 1958, Pope Pius XII was revered throughout the world as the leader who had faced down the evils of Nazism. Jewish leaders who had witnessed the suffering of their people at first hand praised Pope Pius XII as the person who, in the face of the ruthless elimination of any opposition by the Nazis, had mobilised the members of the Church and the Catholic faithful to act, at the risk of their lives and the lives of their families and communities, in a massive rescue. The result of the concerted action by the network of the Catholic faithful was estimated by the Israeli diplomat and historian, Pinchas Lapide, who personally interviewed Holocaust survivors, to be the saving of 700,000 to 860,000 Jews “from certain death at Nazi hands”. Testimony as to the courageous stance taken by Pius XII was given by the Chi...