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Władysław Goral a brief biography of a Polish Bishop and Saint who perished in the Holocaust. Biographical subject is notable already has several pages in other languages wikidata

Blessed Władysław Goral
Auxiliary Bishop of Lublin
Born(1898-05-01)1 May 1898
Stoczek Łukowski, Poland
DiedFebruary 1941(1941-02-00) (aged 42)
Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Nazi Germany
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church
Beatified13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II
FeastMay 28

Władysław Goral (born May 1 , 1898 in Stoczek Łukowski , died February 1945 in Sachsenhausen ) - Polish Roman Catholic priest , auxiliary bishop of Lublin in the years 1938-1945, who was murdered the in Holocaust and is one of the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs of World War II.[1][2]

Biography[edit]

Władysław Goral was born in Stoczek, Lublin County and went to primary school in Nasutów, he attended junior high school in Lubartów and Lublin Poland, which was at that time under the dominion of the Russian Empire. In 1916 Goral entered the Lublin Theological Seminary. After four years there he went to Rome, where he studied Theology and was ordained a priest December 18th, 1920. In 1926 he returned to Lublin and worked 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 was ordained a bishop on October 9, 1938[3] Bishop Goral was very active in scientific societies, social organizations and Catholic Worker Organizations within his diocese and was the president of the Union of Priests "Unitas". On November 17, 1939, the Gestapo raided the curia building and arrested the Bishop, along with several clergy and professors from the seminary and two vicars from the Lublin Cathedral as part of the Intelligenzaktion Program for extermination the Polish intelligentsia. They were all transported to the Gestapo prison in the Lublin Castle. On November 27th The Bishop and the other members of the seminary were sentenced to death, but their sentences were later commuted to life imprisonment. On December 4, 1940, Goral was transported to Sachsenhausen (KL) Concentration Camp. After arriving in Sachsenhausen, Bishop Goral was placed in a single concrete cell in a special part of the camp. Tattooed with the number 5605 , and from 1943 to the number 13981. Bishop Goral was placed in solitary confinement in a single cell. For years he was deprived of human interaction, receiving Catholic sacraments, or reading anything other than Nazi newspapers. He was shot sometime in February 1945 On April 16, 1949, at the request of the Main Board of the Polish Association of former Political Prisoners of Nazi Prisons and Concentration Camps, "for his merits in the field of organizing the Resistance Movement in camps and helping fellow prisoners", he was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross with a Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta. On June 13, 1999 in Warsaw, Pope John Paul II named him among the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs of World War II.

Memorial plaque in the crypt of the cathedral in Lublin


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  1. ^ "108 Polish Martyrs". Catholic.Org. Catholic Online. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Martyrs Killed in Odium Fidei by the Nazis". The Hagiography Circle. http://newsaints.faithweb.com/. Retrieved 31 August 2023. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ Cheney, David M. "Bishop Bl. Wladyslaw Goral". https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/. Retrieved 31 August 2023. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)


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