Józef Świdnicki


Józef Świdnicki (born December 25, 1936 in Pienkówka, Ukraine) is a Polish Catholic priest working in the Soviet Union, a prisoner of the camps from 1984 to 1987. His mother worked in the Soviet Union, his father died in a famine in 1947. Świdnicki, who had to work in the Soviet Union as a cattle shepherd, began his studies at the age of 13. At twenty years he asked the authorities for permission to enter the seminary, which he also did. After three months of refusal, he stopped learning. In 1967 he received a passport and visited Poland for the first time. with Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, who agreed to continue his studies in conspiracy and admission to ordination. Since Świdnicki did not receive a passport again, the priestly ordination (September 11, 1971) gave him a bishop in Vienna, Bishop Wincenty Słodkowiczus. Since then he has worked in Ukraine and in Kazakhstan. Having no permission from the Soviet authorities for pastoral activity often changed the place of residence.

In 1984 he was arrested for distributing the Fatima message, which included proclaimed the fall of communism in Russia. The verdict was relatively low due to the end of the USSR and the approach of perestroika. He was sentenced to three years of labor and was released in 1987 after two and a half years as a result of Amnesty International's intervention. After his release he was active in Central Asia and Siberia, organizing church structures there, initiating the construction of several temples. In 2008 he retired from Muraf.

The history of life and activity of Józef Świdnicki was published in the form of an interview with the river Fr. Jan Pałyga. Bibliography

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