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Jānis Mendriks was born on 21 January, 1907 in Logocki, Kalupe, Latvia, is a Latvian Catholic priest & servant of God. Discover Jānis Mendriks's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 46 years old?
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46 years old |
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Aquarius |
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21 January, 1907 |
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21 January |
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Logocki, Kalupe, Latvia |
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1 August, 1953 |
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Vorkutlag, Komi ASSR, Soviet Union |
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Jānis Mendriks Height, Weight & Measurements
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Jānis Mendriks Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Jānis Mendriks (21 January 1907 – 1 August 1953) was a Latvian Catholic priest who was killed in a Soviet Gulag during the Vorkuta uprising.
Mendriks was born in Logocki, Kalupe Parish, in southern Latgale (then in Russian Empire).
He attended Riga Seminary (Rīgas Katoļu garīgais seminārs) after which he was ordained a priest at St. James's Cathedral, Riga on 3 April 1938.
He was a member of the Congregation of Marian Fathers.
After his ordination, he served as a vicar at the Marian parish in Viļāni.
In 1942 during the German occupation of Latvia, while he served a parish in Ostron, a German policeman died.
He knew the man to be impenitent, and denied him burial in hallowed ground.
This refusal required him to hide from German occupation authorities.
After the Soviet re-occupation of Latvia in 1944, he resumed parish work.
He was arrested on 25 October 1950 and sent to prison in Riga.
On 24 March 1951 he was sentenced to 10 years of forced labor for "organizing anti-Soviet nationalist gangs and for anti-Soviet propaganda."
He was deported to the Komi Republic and worked at a coal mine no. 10 in Yurshor, camp department no. 10 of Rechlag in the Arctic Circle.
Mendriks secretly fulfilled his priestly duties in the labour camp.
On 19 July 1953 Inmates at Vorkuta who were forced to work in the region's coal mines went on strike during the Vorkuta uprising.
The mostly passive strike was put down on 1 August when Red Army troops were ordered by the Vorkuta Gulag camp chief Derevyanko to fire at the strikers, resulting in the deaths of at least 53 prisoners.
While the workers of Vorkuta were protesting and rioting Mendriks decided to move to the front row of the prisoners, believing that as a priest he should be where the people were dying to prepare them to meet God.
Mendriks started reciting the formula of absolution: "Misereatur vestri Omnipotens Deus" in the front row and was shot dead by a Red Army soldier.
Mendriks has been honoured by the Roman Catholic Church as a Servant of God since 2003.
