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Local Polish Pastor Remembers Friend Killed in Crash

Local Polish Pastor Remembers Friend Killed in Crash - Monday, April 12, 2010 at 04:07AM EST

Reported by: Mike Trim
Monday April 12 2010
FRACKVILLE, SCHUYLKILL COUNTY -- A special memorial sits in front of St. John the Baptist Church in Frackville. It pays tribute to victims of a plane crash in Russia that killed the Polish President and Maciej Plazynski, a friend of St. John's Pastor Robert Plichta.

"He was very dedicated man to his family, to the church and of course, to the country," he said.

Pastor Plichta moved to the states 7 years ago. He's responsible for polish catholic congregations in Frackville and Shenandoah.

Before Plichta moved to America, Plazynski was a parishoner of Plichta's church in his hometown of Gdansk, Poland.

The former chief of Poland's parliament, Plazynski was as friendly as they come says Plictha. "It was a blessing for me to know him personally," he said.

But now Pastor Plichta, like the rest of his home country of Poland, is mourning a terrible tragedy. Plazynski was on a plane with several high ranking polish officials including the country's president when it crashed.

Plichta hopes to help Polish-American communities in Schuylkill County cope with the loss. "The first question could appear, why. And there is no answer," he said.

A special Monday mass is scheduled in honor of the crash victims. "Gods message, maybe for the Polish community, maybe for this entire world, Eastern Europe, Western Europe to live together and we have to realize that we are not masters of this earth, we are merely passing through," he added.
 


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