New Martyr
Michael Laszkiewicz
An Orthodox believer of Puchały Stare in Podlasie, killed in 1946 together with other villagers.
- Reposed
- 194620th century
- Place
- Puchały Stare
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy New Martyr Michael Laszkiewicz was an Orthodox believer of the village of Puchały Stare in Podlasie, Poland, killed in 1946.
At the end of January 1946 a detachment of the National Military Union (NZW) under Romuald Rajs, known as "Bury", gathered at Łozice forty to fifty peasants with horses and carts from the surrounding Orthodox villages, to use them as transport. On 31 January, in the forest near Puchały Stare, thirty of them were shot; the remains were exhumed only in 1997, and the skulls bore bullet holes at the back.
The Council of Bishops of the Polish Church received the thirty into the Synaxis of the Martyrs of Chełm and Podlasie on 29 October 2019, and the solemn proclamation took place on 25 July 2020 at Zaleszany. They are remembered on the last Saturday of July, the day of the Zaleszany Icon.