Near Halych, 17 km from Bo\u0142szowce, where the Franciscans run the Center for Peace and Reconciliation at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Bo\u0142szowiec, and near the village of Dytiatyn, one of the most important battles took place, its consequences crucial for the entire defensive campaign against the Soviet forces. The soldiers heroically defended a small piece of their homeland \u2013 Hill 385. Nearly all combatants there gave their lives. The battle took place on September 16, 1920. Sacrificing their most precious possessions, the soldiers of a small Polish Army detachment held off the enemy for many hours \u2013 a Red Cossack division supported by a Bolshevik infantry brigade, saving their 8th Infantry Division and the Ukrainian Cavalry Division from destruction. The battle was crucial for maintaining the offensive on the Eastern Lesser Poland front.<\/p>\n
Marshal J\u00f3zef Pi\u0142sudski posthumously awarded 17 artillerymen the Silver Cross of the Order of War Virtuti Militari, and 11 officers and 41 privates the Cross of Valor. At the same time, he granted the 4th Battery the right to bear the title of the Battery of Death. The remains of one of the soldiers who died there were chosen to be placed in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw. The date and place of this battle were crowned on its columns.<\/p>\n
At the burial site of the soldiers, a chapel-monument of St. Teresa of the Child Jesus was built in honor of the fallen, consecrated on September 21, 1930. The commanders of the nearby garrisons and invited guests regularly took part in the anniversary ceremonies. The most important ceremonies took place on May 3 and September 16. The chapel, systematically devastated after 1945, was finally dismantled by the Soviet authorities in 1947.<\/p>\n
In 2009, Mass was celebrated there for the first time after the war for the deceased soldiers. These prayer meetings were initiated by Szymon Hat\u0142as, a descendant of Dytiatyn residents and organizer of the Dytiatyn 1920 \u2013 Polish Thermopylae project, and Father Grzegorz Cymba\u0142a, then pastor of the Franciscan parish in Bo\u0142szowce.<\/p>\n
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