
Father Piotr Szczupiel is one of many priests who died during World War II. He was born on November 3, 1908 in Budziwoj (now a district of Rzeszów) as the son of Franciszek and Maria née Jopek. After graduating from primary school, he attended the Ist State Junior High School. Fr. Stanisław Konarski in Rzeszów and the II State Junior High School. Prof. Kazimierz Morawski in Przemyśl. He passed his final exams in 1927 and entered the Higher Theological Seminary in Przemyśl. He was ordained in 1932. He served as a curate in Tarnowiec, Jarosław, Przemyśl and Sambor. In the last two, he was a catechist in public schools and a private gymnasium. After the outbreak of World War II, he moved to Dublan. He died shortly after the German attack on the USSR on June 29, 1941, shot by soldiers of the Soviet Army, wrongly accused of killing a Soviet officer. The change of political system and borders after 1945 made it difficult to care for the memory and tombstone of the deceased. It was only in 2008 that a new tombstone was consecrated in Dublany, and in 2022 in Rzeszów-Budziwoj a memorial plaque in the parish church.