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    Published : 2024-06-11
    Vol. 72 No. 4 (2024)

    “When the Heavenly Bells Toll at Hallelujah”: The Apotheosis of Martyrdom of Prelate Konstanty Budkiewicz in a Painting by Władysław Barwicki

    Irena Wodzianowska

    https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5058-8015

    Ewa Ziółek

    https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0167-5491

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rh24724-7

    Abstract

    The show trial of Archbishop Jan Cieplak and 14 priests, which took place in March 1923 in  Moscow, was widely discussed in Poland and around the world. As a result, Prelate Konstanty Budkiewicz was executed by shooting. He was considered a martyr of Bolshevism by the public, which resulted in his numerous commemorations. One of them was a painting by a Lublin-based painter, Władysław Barwicki. It is a multi-layered allegory of the martyrdom of a priest as well as Catholic and Orthodox clergy in Bolshevik Russia. It is also an allegory of the clash of Latin civilization with the idea of Russia as a barbarian civilization.

    Keywords:

    Fr. Konstanty Budkiewicz, Władysław Barwicki, the show trial of Archbishop Jan Cieplak, the apotheosis of the martyrdom of Fr. Budkiewicz



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    Roczniki Humanistyczne · ISSN 0035-7707 | eISSN 2544-5200 | DOI: 10.18290/rh
    © The Learned Society of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin & The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Humanities


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