Topic: Jerzy Popieluszko

Poles throng for beatification of murdered priest

Close to 150,000 faithful flooded into Warsaw Sunday for the beatification of Jerzy Popieluszko, a Roman Catholic priest and opposition activist murdered 25 years ago by Poland's communist secret police.Archbishop Angelo Amato, the Vatican's prefect of the Congregation ...
The 100-year-old mother of Father Jerzy Popieliszko, Marianna, center, prays at her son's grave in front of the St. Stanislaw Kostka church in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 5, 2010, ahead of the Sunday beatification of Jerzy Popieluszko. Popieluszko, the Solidarity chaplain ...
Church beatifies Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish priest slain by communists in 1984Thousands of Poles are expected to fill a vast square in Warsaw on Sunday for the beatification of Jerzy Popieluszko, a charismatic priest tortured and killed in 1984 by communist Poland's ...

Murdered Solidarity priest to be beatified

Up to 250,000 faithful are expected Sunday in Warsaw for the beatification of Jerzy Popieluszko, a Roman Catholic priest and opposition activist murdered 25 years ago by Poland's communist secret police.Archbishop Angelo Amato, the Vatican's Prefect of the ...

The story of priest Jerzy Popieluszko

Usually when we think of saints, we have in mind holy people of times that even our great grandmothers would not remember. He was very much criticized, by authorities, for his political activeness and was subject to persecutions by police, communist authorities ...
Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday approved the beatification of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the " Solidarity chaplain" who was murdered by the Polish secret service in 1984.The decree placed the charismatic priest, a staunch anti-communist who laced his sermons with political messages backing ...

Jerzy Popieluszko

Aspects of the topic Jerzy Popieluszko are discussed in the following places at Britannica. In 1984 a popular priest, Jerzy Popieluszko, was murdered by the secret police, but, for the first time in such a case, state agents were arrested and charged ...