What is Jerzy Popiełuszko?
{{Orphan|date=December 2010}} [[File:Jerzy Popieluszko.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Jerzy Popieluszko]] '''Jerzy Popiełuszko''' (pron. jɛʐɨ popʲɛwuʂko) ([[Okopy]], 14 September 1947 - [[Włocławek]], 19 October 1984) was a Polish [[presbyter]], killed by officers of the ministry of the interior of the [[People's Republic of Poland]]. He is treated with great respect and honored as blessed by the [[Catholic Church]]. == Life == Born in [[Okopy]], a lone village near [[Suchowola]], his parents were farmers, and in this simple environment became grown into his [[vocation]]. He was ordained priest on 28 May 1972 in [[Warsaw]] by [[cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]] [[Stefan Wyszyński]]. Until 1980 he was a priest in his home village, occupying himself mainly with the education of children and boys, since that moment began to near the movement of Polish workers and to subjects of [[social justice]]. In his pastoral activity, he took his work near the workers of [[steelworks]], celebrating a solemn mass in the factory during a strike of the [[metallurgy|metallurgiacal]] workers. Next, he joined the workers of the independent trade union Solidarność ([[Solidarity]]), adverse to the [[communism|communist]] system of government. He was an [[anticommunism|anticommunist]] sure of his faith, and in his [[preaching]]s launched criticisms of the system and invited the people to contest the system of government. == The challenge to the system of government == During the period of the [[martial law]] (1981 - 1983) the [[Catholic Church]] was the only force that could have a certain possibility of criticism, through the preachings during the celebration of the masses. The [[homily|homilies]] and the preachings of Father Popiełuszko were regularly transmitted by [[Radio Free Europe]], which gave him a certain popularity also in other countries. He was initially threatened and ordered to silence by the Polish Ministry of the Interior. On 13 October 1984, he was involved in a traffic accident from which however he went out whole. ==