JANUARY January 1 On January 1, 1983, Father JOSEPH BUDZEIKA (Bood-zay-ka) died of a heart attack in Chicago at the age of 74. He was a priest for 37 years and a religious for 33. Born in Lithuania, he was a member of the American Province of St. Casimir. After five years as a diocesan priest, he joined our Congregation. He fulfilled various pastoral assignments among the Lithuanians in America and then spent six years in England. He is buried in the Marian Fathers' section of St. Casimir Cemetery in Chicago. January 2 FROM THE MARIAN CALENDAR: On January 2, 1946, Servant of God Archimandrite FABIAN ABRANTOWICZ (Ah-brahn-to-veech), died at the age of 61 in the opinion of sanctity in Butyrka Prison in Moscow, while awaiting his deportation to Siberia. He had been sentenced to 10 years of forced labor by a special NKVD unit.1 He was a priest for 36 years and a religious for 20. In 1928, upon the request of Pope Pius XI, he went to Harbin, Manchuria, to fulfill the duties of Ordinary for 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 and imprisoned in Lviv. He was again imprisoned in 1941, in Moscow. His place of burial is unknown. On February 9, 2021, his beatification process was opened as part of the process for the Servant of God Fabian and four companions. V. Let us pray that the Servant of God Fabian and four companions— Andrew, Eugene, John, and Vladas—be raised to the glory of the altars, through Christ our Lord. R. Amen. FROM THE ALBUM OF THE DECEASED: In 2014, Father JOHN DUOBA (Duo-ba), a member of the American Province, died at the age of 92 at Matulaitis Nursing Home in Putnam, Connecticut. He was a religious for 74 years and a priest for 67. He was a Professor 1 NKVD – Russian acronym for People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs, that directly executed the rule of power of the Soviets.
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