Blessed Nicholas Tsehelsky
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- Also known as
- Mykola Cehelskyj
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- Greek Catholic.
Studied theology at Lviv University, 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.
Died in prison; martyr.
- Born
- 17 December 1896 at Strusiv, Ternopil District, Ukraine
- Died
- 25 May 1951 at the forced labour camp at Mordovia; buried there
- Beatified
- 27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II at Ukraine
- Canonized
- pending
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