Holy
Poles who were martyred by the Papists
Holy
Martyr Nicholas
Holy Martyr Nicholas was bon in 1907 in the
village of Cotlatsov, in the county Zitomir, in the very large family Holts.
After the 2nd World War he moved back with his parents in the
historic city of Vladimir, in the eparchy of Bolynia. He felt the calling to
the hieratic step and studied Theology during the 1930's in Bulgaria.
After his studies, he got married and in
1935 he was ordained priest. As a newly ordained, he was sent to assist the
officiating priest in the parish of the village Babitse, while he was staying
in the village Obsa, in the county Bilgorai. The years of his priestly service
were especially difficult and he was unassigned, living totally on the charity
of the faithful. At the same time the papist government of Poland was trying to
curtail his pastoral activity and underhandedly suggested numerous proposals to
lead him astray and even change his faith.
From 1937 until the start of the War, due
to various difficulties and restrictions, he served as a priest in the parishes
of the villages Dougose and Cochilno of the county Bolynia. During the War
years he went to the parish of the village Nobosioulki, in the county Tomasouf,
of the eparchy of Helm. During that period of fear and terror he helped and
saved the lives of many Orthodox and non-Orthodox, performing his pastoral work
with dedication and without any concern even for his life.
In 1944 after the withdrawal of the German
troops, the activity of the Polish Catholic rebels against the Orthodox became
widespread. Then Father Nicholas with a group of faithful of the above parish,
in the month of April, was martyred for not submitting to the suggestions of
the papists, who attacking the Church during the time he was performing the
Mystery of Baptism, they forcefully seized him and took him outside together
with all those present and having tortured them in multiple ways they murdered
them all.
The Holy Hieromartyr Nicholas was buried in
place, where in 1938 the papist government had leveled the previous parish
church. A special ecclesiastic commission could not find his relics or his
tomb, in consideration that the papists had converted all that area into
cultivated fields.
Publications: Orthodox Kypseli.
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