Blessed Nicholas Charnetsky
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- Also known as
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Mykola Carneckyj
Mykola Charnetsky
Nikolas Carneckyj
- Memorial
- 2 April
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- Greek Catholic.
Ordained on 2 October 1909.
Received doctorate in Dogmatic Theology in Rome.
Entered the Redemptorist novitate at Zboysko in 1919, making his vows on 16 September 1920.
Spiritual director and professor at Ivano-Frankivsk seminary, Stanislaviv.
Appointed Apostolic Visitor to Ukrainian Catholics in Volyn and Polyssya by Pope Pius XI in 1926.
Bishop on 2 February 1931.
Apostolic Exarch in Volyn and Pidlyashia during the Bolshevik occupation.
Arrested for his faith on 11 April 1945 by the NKVD; sentenced to six years forced labour in Siberia.
Worked in a blacksmith shop, ministered to other prisoners, and ruined his health.
His six year sentence continued for eleven years, and after his release he lived under constant surveillance and irregular torture.
- Born
- 14 September 1884 at Samakivtsi, Horodensk District, Halychyna, Ukraine
- Died
- 2 April 1959 at Lviv;
buried there;
city authorities have to cover the grave with fresh earth each week as pilgrims carry off so much
- Beatified
- 27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II at Ukraine
- Canonized
- pending
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