Josef Cebula

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Josef Cebula
Entrance to the Josef Cebula Chapel in Mallnie with a picture of the Blessed

Josef Cebula OMI (born March 23, 1902 in Mallnie near Gogolin , Upper Silesia , † April 28, 1941 in Mauthausen concentration camp ) was a Catholic priest and an Oblate of the Immaculate Virgin Mary . Cebula was beatified in 1999.

Live and act

In 1918 Cebula attended the teachers' college in Opole, but fell ill with pleurisy in the same year. After a pilgrimage to the Mother of God in Deutsch Piekar in 1920, he entered the Monastery of the Oblates of the Immaculate Virgin Mary. Shortly after his ordination, he became Superior of the Juniorate in Lublinitz . He was supposed to be provincial, but refused and was then from 1937 novice master of his community in Markowice (Markowitz) in Poland. Because he did not give up his priestly service despite the express prohibition, he was finally taken by the National Socialists to the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he was killed.

He was beatified on June 13, 1999 by Pope John Paul II in Warsaw along with 107 other martyrs . His Catholic feast day is June 12th.

Commemoration

An underground chapel was built in front of the church in Mallnie to commemorate Josef Cebula. In addition to pictures of Cebula, there are also preserved votive offerings for the clergyman. There is also a copy of the picture of Cebula from the prayer room of the Mauthausen concentration camp and a stone with the inscription Mauthausen.

In 1999 the Catholic Church accepted Father Josef Cebula as a witness of faith in the German martyrology of the 20th century .

literature

  • Blessed Joseph Cebula OMI, youth educator and martyr of his priesthood , Oblates II, 6, Rome 2000.
  • Helmut Moll (publisher on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference), witnesses for Christ. Das deutsche Martyrologium des 20. Jahrhundert , Paderborn et al. 1999, 7th revised and updated edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78012-6 , Volume II, pp. 992-996.

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personal data
SURNAME Cebula, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish missionary, Blessed
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Mallnie near Gogolin , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1941
Place of death Mauthausen concentration camp