Vasyl Velychkovsky
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 51 years ago |
Date of birth | June 1,1903 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Ivano-Frankivsk |
Ukraine | |
Date of died | June 30,1973 |
Died | Winnipeg |
Canada | |
Beatified | 27 June 2001 |
Lviv | |
Ukraine | |
Pope John Paul II | |
Feast | 27 June, with Blessed Nicholas Charnetsky and 24 Companions |
Major shrines | St. Joseph's Ukrainian Catholic Church |
Winnipeg | |
Major shrine | St. Joseph's Ukrainian Catholic Church |
Winnipeg | |
Manitoba | |
Canada | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 717496 |
Vasyl Velychkovsky Life story
Vasyl Vsevolod Velychkovsky was a priest, and later bishop, of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, one of the Eastern Catholic Churches in communion with Rome. He is a martyr of the Catholic Church, dying in 1973 of his injuries sustained while imprisoned by the Soviet Union for his Christian faith.