The Marian Martyrs of Rosica

26 The Marian Martyrs of Rosica • FATHER MICHAEL CZARTORYSKI (1897-1944). A Dominican, who died because he refused to abandon the dying and seriously wounded fighters in the Warsaw upris- ing. • REV. WALTER MIEGON (1892-1842). Amilitary chaplain, who, after his release, returned to the arrested seamen so as not to leave them without spiritual support. He died in the camp at Dachau. • NATALIE TULASIEWICZ (1906-1945). A teacher, a pro- moter of the lay apostolate, who joined the transport of young women deported for labor to Germany in order to give them spiritual help. She died in a gas chamber in the Ravensbrueck camp. • REV. GEORGE KASZYRA (1904-1943), and REV. ANTHONY LESZCZEWICZ (1890-1943). Marian priests in Rosica, Belarus, who voluntarily remained with their parishioners condemned to death. They died with them. • REV. ACHILLES PUCHALA (1911-1943) and REV. HEMAN STEPIEN (1908-1943). Cloistered Franciscans from Iwieniec, who were arrested with a large group of peo- ple destined to die in order to serve them as priests. • REV. SIGMUND PISARSKI (1902-1943). A priest from Lublin, who was shot and killed because he refused to turn in some communists who, a little earlier, had tormented him severely and robbed him. The next group were those who were imprisoned and, know- ing that they exposed themselves to death, rejected the offer of freedom in exchange for renouncing their priestly vocation. For example: