Franciszek Blachnicki [10]

    
    
    
    

In Memory of Rev. Franciszek Blachnicki

Coin reverse 10 pln In Memory of Rev. Franciszek Blachnicki
Coin obverse 10 pln In Memory of Rev. Franciszek Blachnicki
Subject: no
Face value: 10 pln
Alloy: 999/1000 Ag
Diameter: 32 mm
Weight: 14.14 g
Finish: proof
Mintage: 8000 pcs
On the edge: smooth
Additional: no
Date of issue: 2025-07-17
Issue price: 260 pln
On the right, the bust of Rev. Franciszek Blachnicki, the left part of the priest’s coat stylised as a camp uniform from the Auschwitz concentration camp – a striped uniform with the priest’s camp number 1201. On the left, a cross with a stole and thorns. Along the rim, from the bottom to the right, the semi-circular inscription: PAMIĘCI KS. FRANCISZKA BLACHNICKIEGO (In Memory of Rev. Franciszek Blachnicki).

Designer: Paulina Kotowicz
On the left, figures of a woman kneeling in prayer and a kneeling man turned to the left. On the right, at the top, the symbol of the Light-Life Movement; below it, an image of the Eagle established as the state emblem of the Republic of Poland; below the Eagle, on the right, the Mint mark: m/w. Above the Eagle, the inscription: 10 / ZŁ. Along the bottom rim, the semi-circular inscription: RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA 2025 (THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND 2025).

Designer: Paulina Kotowicz

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In Memory of Rev. Franciszek Blachnicki

Father Franciszek Blachnicki was born on 24 March 1921 in Rybnik. In his youth he used to be a boy scout and a soldier and took part in the Polish defensive war of September 1939. He was part of the anti-Nazi resistance movement. He was also a prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, in 1942 sentenced to death, which was commuted to 10 years of harsh imprisonment.

In 1945, he entered the Higher Silesian Seminary in Kraków and was ordained a priest on 25 June 1950. As a vicar, he worked in parishes in Tychy, Borowa Wieś, Łaziska Górne, Rydułtowy, Cieszyn and Bieruń Stary.

In 1957, he initiated a nationwide sobriety campaign called the Temperance Crusade. Already in 1960 it had 100,000 members declaring abstinence from alcohol. ...

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