Album of the Deceased Marian Fathers and Brothers

J A n u A ry J AnuAry 1 On January 1, 1983, father JosePh buDZeIKA died of a heart attack in Chicago at the age of 74. Born in Lithuania, he was a member of the Amer- ican Province of St. Casimir. After five years as a diocesan priest, he became a professed member of our Congregation at the age of 43. He fulfilled various pastoral activities among the Lithuanians in the U.S., and then for six years in England. He is buried in the section reserved for the Marians in St. Casimir’s cemetery in Chicago. J AnuAry 2 from the mArIAn CAlenDAr: On January 2, 1946, servant of god Archimandrite fAbIAn AbrAntoWICZ (Ab-ran-to-vitch), aged 61, died in the opinion of sanctity in the Butyrki prison in Moscow, while awaiting his deportation to Siberia, having been sentenced for 10 years of forced labor by a special NKVD unit. He was a priest for 36 years and a Marian for 20. In 1928, upon the request of Pope Pius XI he went to Harbin, Manchuria, to fulfill the duties of Ordinary for the Russians of the Eastern Rite in China. On October 22, 1939, while visiting his relatives in Poland, he was betrayed into the hands of the Bolshevik authorities near Rawa Ruska. After his arrest in 1939, he was imprisoned in Lvov and later, in 1941, in Moscow. On February 9, 2021, his beatification process was opened in Warsaw, Poland. His place of burial is unknown. l. Let us pray that the Servant of God Fabian may attain the glory of the Blessed, through Christ Our Lord. All. Amen. from the Album of the DeCeAseD: On January 2, 2014, Father JOHN DUOBA , a member of the American Province, was called to the Lord. He was 92 years old, a religious for 75 years and a priest for 68. He studied Sacred Scripture at the Biblicum Pontifical Institute in Rome, and then served in Argentina as a professor of Sacred Scripture and biblical languages at San Carlos Boromeo Seminary in the Province of Santa Fe. He was the chaplain in the Asilo del Buon Pastor in Rosario and pastor of our Madre de la Misericordia Parish in Avellaneda. In 1975, he returned to the United States, where he worked at the Lithuanian newspaper Draugas, in Chicago, and taught at *NKVD – Russian acronym for People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs, (pronounced en-ka-veh-deh) that directly executed the rule of power of the Soviets.