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Publishing Activity of Father Franciszek Blachnicki in the FRG (the Federal Republic of Germany) in the years 1982–1987
Robert Derewenda
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1096-5052
Instytut Pamięci Narodowej Oddział w Lublinie, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Remembrance and Justice, Vol. 40 No. 2 (2022), pages: 526-547
Publication date: 2023-06-23
https://doi.org/10.48261/pis224026
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Abstract
In the last years of his life, spent in exile in the FRG, Father Franciszek Blachnicki established the International “Light-Life” Centre for Evangelisation in Carlsberg in 1982. The Christian Service for the Liberation of Nations was also based there. Both establishments were supported by the Maximilianeum Publishing House, which released literature addressed mainly to the Polish community and then was transferred to Poland. Providing the equipment for the printing house required material resources. Friends of Father Blachnicki, the Protestants from the Campus Crusade for Christ International, were there to help. Initially, it was ad hoc assistance, and from December 1985 it developed into permanent orders for printing. To properly arrange cooperation with the Protestants, at the turn of 1985 and 1986, Father Blachnicki established the Ecumenical Evangelisation Publishing House (Ekumeniczne Wydawnictwo Ewangelizacyjne). It was registered in the name of his brother and Jolanta Gontarczyk (the agent of the Polish People’s Republic, known as “Panna”). She was in charge of the account of the publishing house. Despite a large financial inflow into the account, there was a constant shortage of money to meet basic needs. There are many indications that communist agents were responsible for the embezzlement of the funds received by the publishing house. In March 1987, the publishing house was to start a three-year contract with Campus Crusade. If that contract for 2 million US dollars had gone through, it would have solved the financial problems of Father Blachnicki and would have been the opportunity to develop the publishing activity — however, Father Blachnicki died suddenly on 27 February 1987.
Keywords
ks. Franciszek Blachnicki • wydawnictwo • oazy • Ruch Światło-Życie • aparat bezpieczeństwa wobec ruchu oazowego • Republika Federalna Niemiec Father Franciszek Blachnicki • publishing house • oases • Light-Life Movement • security apparatus against the Oasis Movement • FRG (Federal Republic of Germany)
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