No biography was written about Theodor Jeske-Choinski, no documentary was filmed, no philological studies were devoted to him. His works are resumed, but they do not go to the wider masses, are not described by the media, fewer are willing to be patronized – we read at the beginning the preface of Paweł Krzemiński, the author of the first monograph comprehensively presenting the figure and work of Teodor Jeske-Choiński, hated by Censors of the Polish People's Republic and many academic lecturers due to their conventional views.
Cossacks and guards beat women without mercy, but they preferred to die, alternatively than baptize their children in the Orthodox church – reads the “Blood Tears of Polish Unities” in which Teodor Jeske-Choinski resembles the persecution of Polish bishops and priests by Tsarsk Russia: Having disposed of the bishops and monks, Cherkaski went to the lay parish priests. He forbade them from baptizing the children of Unity, listening to their fathers and mothers of confession, marrying married couples, hiding dead Unity in Catholic cemeteries. Priests of the brave who refused to obey his orders and prohibitions, punished with money, imprisonment, or even exile to Siberia. Many Poles died without access to the sacraments, had no chance to usage the services of Catholic priests due to draconian Russian law, which sought to eradicate Polish Catholicism: The Russian army came to 1 Podlasie village and demanded from the unit keys from their temple. The Unitians immediately figured out why these armed people came to them due to the fact that they knew that the Russian government had decided to convert their Catholic church into an Orthodox church, to throw out altars, monstrations, organs, confessionals and banners from it. With their soul and heart attached to their Catholic temple, they refused to let Orthodox destroyers in. The full village: men, women and children, old and young, surrounded her church, covered it with her body. Choiński recreates all the drama of that time and proves that Polishness survived thanks to Catholicism. If the unis had accepted the Orthodoxy and succumbed to the Tsaric authorities, they would have fused with the Russian people. They deserve to be remembered and praised for their steadfast attitude: It was a surprise to the stalkers. They thought that Catholics in Podlasie were almost completely exterminated, they did not anticipate specified male resistance, specified superhuman perseverance. But the Podlasie people have shown that they can defend themselves and will not be allowed to swallow even the giants of Russia. Nor will this people be killed, and now that greedy clutches of Orthodox Ukraine are reaching out for him. He will not die and always stay Polish and Catholic.
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