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| Blessed Stanislaus Kubista |
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Stanislaus Kubista, SVD (Stanislaw Kubista) was born in 1889 in Kostuchna.
Following ordination in 1927, he published newspapers for the Society of the Divine Word.
When the German Army occupied Poland in 1939, the press was dismantled and all the papers
confiscated. All the SVDs were arrested. On February 5, 1940, they were taken to the
concentration camp in Gdansk.The camp had terrible sanitary conditions, the weather was
cold, and the prisoners suffered from lack of food, hard work and inhuman treatment. |
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months later, the prisoners were taken in cattle trucks to a prison near Berlin. Fr.
Kubista died at that camp April 26 in OrienburgSachsenhausen. An eyewitness reported that
he had become very weak from an inflammation of the lungs and intestines. For three nights
he lay on the floor in the wash-room where the guards threw all the prisoners who were
near death. On April 26, 1940, the manager of the barracks entered the barracks. He stood
near Fr. Kubista and said: "You have no reason to live." With one foot on the
priest's chest and the other on his throat, he crushed the bones in his chest and throat
and transferred the priest's body to the crematorium. |
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