Blessed Basil Velychkovsky
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- Also known as
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Vasyl Velyckovskyj
Vasyl Velychkovsky
- Memorial
- 2 April
- Profile
- Son of catechists Volodymyr and Anne Theodorowych Velychkovsky.
Greek Catholic.
Entered the seminary in Lviv in 1920.
Ordained in 9 October 1925.
Teacher and missionary in Volyn.
Prior of the monastery at Ternopil in 1942.
Arrested for his faith at Ternopil in 1945, condemned to death, and sent to Kyiv where his sentence was changed to ten years in a forced labour camp.
There he ministered to other prisoners.
Returned to Lviv in 1955.
Bishop of the "clandestine" Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer.
Archbishop in 1963.
Arrested again for his faith, and for listening to Vatican Radio, in 1969.
Sentenced to three years in the camps, where, between torture sessessions, he ministered to other prisoners.
When his health failed, he was released.
Travelled to Rome, and then to Winnipeg, Canada.
Confessor of the faith.
- Born
- 1 June 1903 in Stanislaviv, Ukraine
- Died
- 30 June 1973 at Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada of natural causes
- Venerated
- 24 April 2001 by Pope John Paul II
- Beatified
- 27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II at Ukraine
- Canonized
- pending;
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
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Chiesa S. Sofia Ucraina
Via Boccea, 478
00166 Roma, ITALY
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