The Polish Martyrs

By Bob Lord and Penny Lord

No sooner had we decided to add this martyr, or that group of martyrs than people came up with yet another martyr for us to consider. And for the most part, these are all Twentieth Century martyrs. We chose to share with you the first martyr of Poland, St. Stanislaus, mostly because he was the first Polish canonized saint, who was actually born Polish and died a Martyr. But with that exception, all the atrocities took place from 1939 on, and the most recent, Fr. Jerzy Popieluszko was martyred in 1984.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Journeys of Faith
• Release date: Apr 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458031372

Bob Lord

Bob and Penny Lord renowned Catholic Authors and hosts on EWTN. They are best known for their media on Miracles of the Eucharist and Many Faces of Mary. They have been dubbed experts on the Catholic Saints. They produced over 200 television programs for EWTN global television network and wrote over 25 books and hundreds of ebooks.

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The Polish Martyrs

Bob and Penny Lord

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The Polish Martyrs

In 1945, the Nazi war machine was finally crushed and cities and countries all over Europe were being liberated by the Allied Forces. Great shouts of joy could be heard. Young girls in Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, and other cities across Europe kissed young G.I.'s and other liberating forces. Churches were filled with Masses of Thanksgiving. Prayers of gratitude were offered up by the tens of thousands to Our Lord Jesus and His Mother Mary for finally ending the hell to which these dear people had been subjected for the last six years. It was a new beginning, a new world for Europe.

But not quite all. East of Germany and west of Russia, the little country of Poland was not liberated by anyone. It just changed tyrants. It was evacuated by the Nazi troops, and just taken over by a different monster, the Soviet Union. At the end of World War II, when Hitler knew the end was inevitably close, he had initiated his Scorched Earth policy, which, stated simply, meant, Burn everything to the ground. Don't leave anything for the Allies to capture. Warsaw, the capital of Poland, was almost completely destroyed. We're told that 85% of the city burned to the ground. When Eisenhower came through some months after the war ended, he wept at the all-out devastation he witnessed. And yet, while this ruination was being inflicted on the people of Poland, the Russian Army, which was supposed to be our allies, sat on the other side of the Wisla River and just watched. Then, when it was finished, they simply marched in and took over, according to a pre-ordained agreement made by Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the Yalta Conference in February, 1945. The Communists continued the rule of tyranny over this nation for the next forty-five years. A perfect example of the way things were changed is indicated by a street in Czestochowa, a great Marian shrine. Before World