Blessed Mykola Tsehelskyi

Also known as

• Mykola Cehelskyj
• Nicholas Tsehelsky

Memorial

• 25 May
• 27 June as one of the Martyrs Killed Under Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe

Profile

Greek Catholic. Studied theology at the university of Lviv, Ukraine, graduating in 1923. Married with two sons and two daughters. Ordained on 5 April 1925. Parish priest at Soroka, Hrymailivsk deanery, where he built the church. Pastor of the Archeparchy of Lviv for the Ukrainians. Intimidated, then threatened, then beaten by Soviet authorities after World War II. Arrested for his faith on 28 October 1946; sentenced to ten years imprisonment on 27 January 1947, he was sentenced to ten years the forced labour camps in Mordovia, Russia. Died in prison, one of the Martyrs Killed Under Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe.

Born

• 17 December 1896 at Strusiv, Ternopil District, Ukraine

Died

• 25 May 1951 at the forced labour camp at Mordovia, Russia
• buried there

Venerated

• 24 April 2001 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

• 27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II in Ukraine

Canonized

• if you have information relevant to the canonization of Blessed Basil, contact
     Ukrain’ska Greko-Katolits’ka Tserkva
     pl. Sviatoho Yura 5
     L’viv 79000, UKRAINE
     - or -
     Chiesa S. Sofia Ucraina
     Via Boccea, 478
     00166 Roma, ITALY

Additional Information

• Hagiography Circle

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Mykola Tsehelskyi”. Saints.SQPN.com. 3 April 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-mykola-tsehelskyi/>