In the note from the Polish Episcopate it is reported that the future blessed was warned of the danger he was running and urged to leave Ploki. However, during one of his sermons he expressed: “Even if I fall dead, I will not stop preaching this Gospel and I will not renounce my own cross.”
On the night of May 11-12, 1946, a twenty-man communist militia stormed the rectory, the priest was read the death sentence and then taken outside. Father Rapacz was dragged with a rope around the church and brutally beaten. He was later taken to a distant forest where he was shot.
“He remained in the memory of his parishioners as a priest who went to church every night to pray for a long time before the Blessed Sacrament for the salvation of the people entrusted to him,” says the Archbishop of Krakow, Mons. Marek Jedraszewski, in his Lenten letter cited by the Episcopate.