Blessed Władysław Goral (born on May 1, 1898 in Stoczek , died in February 1945 in Sachsenhausen ) - Polish Roman Catholic priest , auxiliary bishop of Lublin in 1938-1945, blessed of the Catholic Church .
After finishing elementary school in Nasutów, he studied in gymnasiums in Lubartów and Lublin. In 1916 he joined the Lublin Seminary. After four years spent there, he went to Rome, where he studied philosophy. On December 18, 1920, he was ordained priest . In 1926 he returned to Lublin and began working as a professor at the seminary. On August 10, 1938, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Lublin and titular bishop of Maloe in Isauria. He accepted the episcopal ordination on October 9, 1938.
He was active in scientific societies and social organizations, he was the president of the "Unitas" Priests' Union. On his initiative, a house for retired priests was established in Lublin. His passion was pastoral work and educational and educational work undertaken for the benefit of workers. With a view to forming these circles in the spirit of Catholic tradition, he created or co-created a number of Christian organizations such as the Christian Union of Workers of the Republic of Poland, the Christian Workers' University or the Lublin Charitable Society.
At noon on November 17, 1939, in the Gestapo curia building, he arrested the bishop, the chancellor of the curia and all other clergy as part of the German elimination of the Polish intelligentsia under the name Sonderaktion Lublin . A similar fate met three professors from the seminary and two vicars from the cathedral. The whole group (13 priests) was transported to the Gestapo prison in a castle in Lublin . On November 27, they stood before the court. They were sentenced to death. Later, the sentence was turned into a lifelong prison. On December 4, 1940, they found themselves in the German concentration camp Sachsenhausen (KL) .
Bishop Goral, after arriving in Sachsenhausen, was placed in the single cell of the concrete bunker of the Zellenbau sub-camp , a special sector within the camp. Marked by the number 5605 , and from 1943 - 13981, he remained until the end, i.e. until spring 1945, in cell 11 sentenced to complete loneliness, deprived of the company of other prisoners, the possibility of receiving sacraments or reading other than Nazi newspapers. He was probably shot in February 1945.
On April 16, 1949, at the request of the Main Board of the Polish Union of Former Political Prisoners of Nazi Prisoners and Concentration Camps "for merits located in the field of the resistance movement in the camps and help for prisoners" was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross with the Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
On June 13, 1999 in Warsaw, Pope John Paul II brought to the glory of the altars 108 blessed martyrs from the years of World War II . One of them was Bishop Władysław Goral. A special place of worship of Bl. bishop Władysław is an archcathedral and a parish at his request , erected in Lublin on April 19, 2004.
After finishing elementary school in Nasutów, he studied in gymnasiums in Lubartów and Lublin. In 1916 he joined the Lublin Seminary. After four years spent there, he went to Rome, where he studied philosophy. On December 18, 1920, he was ordained priest . In 1926 he returned to Lublin and began working as a professor at the seminary. On August 10, 1938, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Lublin and titular bishop of Maloe in Isauria. He accepted the episcopal ordination on October 9, 1938.
He was active in scientific societies and social organizations, he was the president of the "Unitas" Priests' Union. On his initiative, a house for retired priests was established in Lublin. His passion was pastoral work and educational and educational work undertaken for the benefit of workers. With a view to forming these circles in the spirit of Catholic tradition, he created or co-created a number of Christian organizations such as the Christian Union of Workers of the Republic of Poland, the Christian Workers' University or the Lublin Charitable Society.
At noon on November 17, 1939, in the Gestapo curia building, he arrested the bishop, the chancellor of the curia and all other clergy as part of the German elimination of the Polish intelligentsia under the name Sonderaktion Lublin . A similar fate met three professors from the seminary and two vicars from the cathedral. The whole group (13 priests) was transported to the Gestapo prison in a castle in Lublin . On November 27, they stood before the court. They were sentenced to death. Later, the sentence was turned into a lifelong prison. On December 4, 1940, they found themselves in the German concentration camp Sachsenhausen (KL) .
Bishop Goral, after arriving in Sachsenhausen, was placed in the single cell of the concrete bunker of the Zellenbau sub-camp , a special sector within the camp. Marked by the number 5605 , and from 1943 - 13981, he remained until the end, i.e. until spring 1945, in cell 11 sentenced to complete loneliness, deprived of the company of other prisoners, the possibility of receiving sacraments or reading other than Nazi newspapers. He was probably shot in February 1945.
On April 16, 1949, at the request of the Main Board of the Polish Union of Former Political Prisoners of Nazi Prisoners and Concentration Camps "for merits located in the field of the resistance movement in the camps and help for prisoners" was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross with the Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
On June 13, 1999 in Warsaw, Pope John Paul II brought to the glory of the altars 108 blessed martyrs from the years of World War II . One of them was Bishop Władysław Goral. A special place of worship of Bl. bishop Władysław is an archcathedral and a parish at his request , erected in Lublin on April 19, 2004.
Blessed Władysław Goral (born on May 1, 1898 in Stoczek , died in February 1945 in Sachsenhausen ) - Polish Roman Catholic priest , auxiliary bishop of Lublin in 1938-1945, blessed of the Catholic Church .
After finishing elementary school in Nasutów, he studied in gymnasiums in Lubartów and Lublin. In 1916 he joined the Lublin Seminary. After four years spent there, he went to Rome, where he studied philosophy. On December 18, 1920, he was ordained priest . In 1926 he returned to Lublin and began working as a professor at the seminary. On August 10, 1938, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Lublin and titular bishop of Maloe in Isauria. He accepted the episcopal ordination on October 9, 1938.
He was active in scientific societies and social organizations, he was the president of the "Unitas" Priests' Union. On his initiative, a house for retired priests was established in Lublin. His passion was pastoral work and educational and educational work undertaken for the benefit of workers. With a view to forming these circles in the spirit of Catholic tradition, he created or co-created a number of Christian organizations such as the Christian Union of Workers of the Republic of Poland, the Christian Workers' University or the Lublin Charitable Society.
At noon on November 17, 1939, in the Gestapo curia building, he arrested the bishop, the chancellor of the curia and all other clergy as part of the German elimination of the Polish intelligentsia under the name Sonderaktion Lublin . A similar fate met three professors from the seminary and two vicars from the cathedral. The whole group (13 priests) was transported to the Gestapo prison in a castle in Lublin . On November 27, they stood before the court. They were sentenced to death. Later, the sentence was turned into a lifelong prison. On December 4, 1940, they found themselves in the German concentration camp Sachsenhausen (KL) .
Bishop Goral, after arriving in Sachsenhausen, was placed in the single cell of the concrete bunker of the Zellenbau sub-camp , a special sector within the camp. Marked by the number 5605 , and from 1943 - 13981, he remained until the end, i.e. until spring 1945, in cell 11 sentenced to complete loneliness, deprived of the company of other prisoners, the possibility of receiving sacraments or reading other than Nazi newspapers. He was probably shot in February 1945.
On April 16, 1949, at the request of the Main Board of the Polish Union of Former Political Prisoners of Nazi Prisoners and Concentration Camps "for merits located in the field of the resistance movement in the camps and help for prisoners" was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross with the Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
On June 13, 1999 in Warsaw, Pope John Paul II brought to the glory of the altars 108 blessed martyrs from the years of World War II . One of them was Bishop Władysław Goral. A special place of worship of Bl. bishop Władysław is an archcathedral and a parish at his request , erected in Lublin on April 19, 2004.
After finishing elementary school in Nasutów, he studied in gymnasiums in Lubartów and Lublin. In 1916 he joined the Lublin Seminary. After four years spent there, he went to Rome, where he studied philosophy. On December 18, 1920, he was ordained priest . In 1926 he returned to Lublin and began working as a professor at the seminary. On August 10, 1938, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Lublin and titular bishop of Maloe in Isauria. He accepted the episcopal ordination on October 9, 1938.
He was active in scientific societies and social organizations, he was the president of the "Unitas" Priests' Union. On his initiative, a house for retired priests was established in Lublin. His passion was pastoral work and educational and educational work undertaken for the benefit of workers. With a view to forming these circles in the spirit of Catholic tradition, he created or co-created a number of Christian organizations such as the Christian Union of Workers of the Republic of Poland, the Christian Workers' University or the Lublin Charitable Society.
At noon on November 17, 1939, in the Gestapo curia building, he arrested the bishop, the chancellor of the curia and all other clergy as part of the German elimination of the Polish intelligentsia under the name Sonderaktion Lublin . A similar fate met three professors from the seminary and two vicars from the cathedral. The whole group (13 priests) was transported to the Gestapo prison in a castle in Lublin . On November 27, they stood before the court. They were sentenced to death. Later, the sentence was turned into a lifelong prison. On December 4, 1940, they found themselves in the German concentration camp Sachsenhausen (KL) .
Bishop Goral, after arriving in Sachsenhausen, was placed in the single cell of the concrete bunker of the Zellenbau sub-camp , a special sector within the camp. Marked by the number 5605 , and from 1943 - 13981, he remained until the end, i.e. until spring 1945, in cell 11 sentenced to complete loneliness, deprived of the company of other prisoners, the possibility of receiving sacraments or reading other than Nazi newspapers. He was probably shot in February 1945.
On April 16, 1949, at the request of the Main Board of the Polish Union of Former Political Prisoners of Nazi Prisoners and Concentration Camps "for merits located in the field of the resistance movement in the camps and help for prisoners" was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross with the Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
On June 13, 1999 in Warsaw, Pope John Paul II brought to the glory of the altars 108 blessed martyrs from the years of World War II . One of them was Bishop Władysław Goral. A special place of worship of Bl. bishop Władysław is an archcathedral and a parish at his request , erected in Lublin on April 19, 2004.
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