Priest in Pionki assaulted

Country: Poland

Date of incident: May 5, 2023


On 5 May 2023, at around 1pm, an unknown man attacked 80-year-old priest Fr. Leon Czerwiński, former parish priest of the Blessed Virgin Mary Queen of Poland in Pionki near Radom.

The priest, dressed in his clerical garb, a vestment with a burse of oil of the sick, was returning to the presbytery after visiting the sick. He was brutally attacked, thrown to the ground and beaten. 

Source: gosc niedzielni

Picture: istock