By Theresa Marie Moreau
Polish Roman Catholic Priest, Father Jerzy Popieluszko dared to align himself with the solidarity movement in Communist ruled Poland.
As a result he became a target of the Socialists and their theophobic ideology of death and destruction.
The Communist secret police plotted to kill him in a staged car accident, on October 13, 1984, but he avoided it.
However, another plan was successful.
Three secret policemen pretended to have car problems on October 19, 1984, flagged down the Priest and grabbed him when he stopped.
Captain Grzegorz Piotrowski, Leszek Pekala and Waldemar Chmielewski beat the priest, tied him up, tossed him into the trunk, and, then attached a stone to his feet before they pushed him into the Vistula Water Reservoir.
His body was recovered on October 29, 1984.
This most popular Priest, known for his spiritually uplifting homilies, was mourned by a million people at his funeral. It was during the time of grief in Poland when Communist forces had swept into the land and extinguished the lives of more than a million families, causing death and destruction of Catholic properties in a monumental land made holy with the grace of God ... Its 'masses' were devoted to the Immaculate Mary.
Viva Cristo Rey! Niech Zyje Christus Krol!
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