Fifty-eight worshipers , priests , policemen , and bystanders were killed Killing and seventy-eight were wounded Bodily_harm or maimed Bodily_harm .

Victims included Cause_to_be_included dissidents and leftists , union and peasant leaders , priests and nuns , students and teachers , intellectuals and suspected guerillas .

A Soviet campaign of political murders Killing and other forms of repression , targeting Aiming Polish figures of authority such as military officers , police and priests , began Process_start with a wave of arrests Arrest and summary executions Rewards_and_punishments .

Editors of `` The Jewish Daily Forward '' commented Statement , `` Would a similar delegation of 500 Catholic priests have been thus treated ? ''

In the geographic area south of the Loire , resistance to recruitment Employment was particularly intense , and much of this area also resented intrusion by partisans of the republic , called `` blue coats '' , who brought Bringing with them new ideas about district and judicial organization , and who required reorganization of parishes with the so-called juring priests ( those who had taken Conquering the civil oath ) .

Intelligenzaktion ( , `` Intelligentsia action '' ) was a secret mass murder Killing conducted Action by Nazi Germany against the Polish intelligentsia ( teachers , priests , physicians , `` et al . '' )

Parents were made to watch Perception_active their children being killed Killing and priests trying to protect Defending those who sought refuge in churches were murdered Committing_crime , some at the altar .