Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko: Fact Versus Totalitarianism

“Pay attention, Father Jerzy, at present is September 14, your birthday. So if you’re imagined to do one thing, that is the day!” So prayed Father Bernard Brien beside the mattress of a dying man. As quickly because the priest left the hospital room, the comatose affected person opened his eyes and requested his spouse what had occurred. A couple of days later his medical crew, after many assessments, noticed that his widespread most cancers had fully disappeared. The medical doctors had been astounded.

The miracle moved Father Brien to put in writing this e-book about Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko, to make the twentieth-century martyr higher recognized. He presents an intimate portrait of the brave Polish priest who modified his life and that of numerous others.

Because the younger and ardent chaplain of the Solidarity labor union, Father Popieluszko embodied the Polish individuals’s resistance to Communism, and for this he was murdered in 1984, on the age of thirty-seven, by the Communist regime’s safety forces. Quickly afterward Father Popieluszko was hailed as a martyr and a nationwide hero, and his instance impressed the Polish individuals to persevere of their battle for political and non secular freedom.

Father Popieluszko’s witness of non secular resistance, deeply rooted within the lifetime of Christ, retains its relevance and urgency within the twenty-first century. The younger Polish priest who stood as much as Communist totalitarianism at the price of his life will embolden those that resist tyranny and defend human dignity.