Blessed Olympia Bida
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- Also known as
- Olha Bida
- Memorial
- 2 April
- Profile
- Greek Catholic.
Joined the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph.
Worked in several towns as a catechist and novice director, and with the aged and sick.
Taught and helped to raise several young women.
Convent superior in Kheriv where the Communists worked against her.
Arrested for her faith in 1951, and exiled to a forced labour camp in the Tomsk region of Siberia.
In the camp she continued her duties as superior, and organised other exiled nuns into prayer and support groups.
Martyr.
- Born
- 1903 at Tsebliv, Lviv District, Ukraine
- Died
- 28 January 1952 of natural causes
- Beatified
- 27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II at Ukraine
- Canonized
- pending
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