Father Wrodarczyk OMI (1907-1943). Priest and Martyr
Father Wrodarczyk OMI (1907-1943). Priest and Martyr

Summary/Abstract: The Second World War was one of the most dramatic periods in the history of Poland - also for the young Province of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. After the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 by Nazi Germany and Soviet allies on September 17, 1939, nine Oblate houses were under German occupation and five under Russian. One of the features of Soviet policy in the annexed territories was the use of ethnic tensions between Poles and other ethnic groups. Another dramatic one was the extermination of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists supported by the Nazis after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. One of the goals of the ethnic cleansing carried out by the Ukrainian nationalist groups OUN-B and UPA was eradication of the Roman Catholic clergy. Seventeen priests and religious were killed in the Lutsk diocese. One of them was Fr. Ludwik Wrodarczyk OMI parish priest of the Okopów parish in Volhynia. His beatification process began in May 2016 in Lutsk.

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