After place Calonne, rue Lavoisier, is a tiny square rue Lavoisier. On these few square-meters, some benches, trees and a monument ... we ended up not out. She said that democracy is not a universal idea ... At the time plays the political destiny of the Middle East, the memory of Father Popieluszko should challenge those who forget how Freedom is precious and often paid dearly when it is deprived .
Born into a poor peasant family, Jerzy Popieluszko was ordained in 1972 at the age of 25. In October 1978, the archbishop of Krakow, Karol Wojtyla was elected pope under the name John Paul II. Pope first came from the Eastern Bloc, is a sign of hope for the Polish Catholic Church which is the main political opposition to the birth of the Solidarity trade union. Founded in illegality by Lech Walesa, Jerzy Popieluszko became the chaplain. In 1980, the Gdansk shipyard went on strike. The state of emergency was declared on December 13, 1981 order of Moscow. Most gathering is not allowed except for Masses and Solidarity was outlawed.
Father Popieluszko pronounces vibrant homilies condemning the dictatorship during his Masses attract hundreds of worshipers. The political police trying to provoke the faithful to find reason to condemn the priest. In 1983, he is arrested and released thanks to pressure from the Church. He escaped the following year in a car accident for the kill. 19 October 1984, he was removed by the police but his driver escaped and alerted the population. Sequestered, the priest was tortured to death, his body was thrown into a ballast tank water of the Vistula. He only discovered several days later. His killers were sentenced to heavy penalties for clearing the government but in 1987, they benefit from generous discounts sentences. Over 500,000 people attended his funeral. The man who spoke of freedom, democracy and human rights contributed to the weakening of totalitarian communism in Eastern Europe. In 1997, Pope John Paul II trial opens of beatification as a martyr of the faith. Father Popieluszko was beatified in 2010. As in Dunkerque, a stele erected near the place Calonne said that the sacrifice, agreed or imposed, is not a matter of faith, it is also the ultimate expression of belief.
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