Szlaki województw śląskiego i opolskiego

The plaque dedicated to Father Jan Kapica is located on a building opposite the Church of St. Anthony of Padua in Siemianowice Śląskie [Siemianowitz], on a street also named in his honor. It commemorates Father Jan Kapica (1866–1930), a Catholic clergyman and an active social and political activist. Kapica graduated from secondary school in Pszczyna [Pless]. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, he fiercely promoted the idea of abstinence. From 1898 until his death in 1930, he served as the parish priest of St. Mary Magdalene in Tychy [Tichau], where he contributed to the church's expansion. He supported the Centre Party and, in 1908, became a deputy to the Prussian Parliament. Earlier, from 1892, he served as a vicar in the Parish of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Siemianowice. After World War I, he advocated for the incorporation of Silesia into Poland. He served as the deputy chairman of the Polish Plebiscite Committee in the Pszczyna district. For his activities, he was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit and the papal order Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice. He rests by the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Tychy, beneath a mission cross, at a spot now marked by a tombstone bearing the inscription: "I pity the people" ("Żal mi ludu").