An example for growing up in resilience from the Ukrainian martyrs for the faith
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Athanasiy
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In addition to the names listed above, there are thousands of other Ukrainian heroes of great faith who perished as martyrs, especially during the period of early communism.
There are several generations of martyrs,
who sincerely loved Christ, the church, and their people.
Of course, in modern times we have other temptations. Today there are difficulties associated with this time.
But that generation of heroes was far from self-glory, far from the wishes to please the moneybags, or impress the superiors with the art of influencing, it was far from the heavenly careerism and the desire to perpetuate as a heroes.
There was meekness, the shepherd’s risks to save the sheeps and be together with the sheeps in the most difficult moments.
Examples of the martyrdom of early communism are the most tragic.
People do not always remember them (the bones of many saints are still in the prison cemeteries of the Siberian taiga)but the All-Seeing Lord God remembers them
There are several generations of martyrs,
who sincerely loved Christ, the church, and their people.
Of course, in modern times we have other temptations. Today there are difficulties associated with this time.
But that generation of heroes was far from self-glory, far from the wishes to please the moneybags, or impress the superiors with the art of influencing, it was far from the heavenly careerism and the desire to perpetuate as a heroes.
There was meekness, the shepherd’s risks to save the sheeps and be together with the sheeps in the most difficult moments.
Examples of the martyrdom of early communism are the most tragic.
People do not always remember them (the bones of many saints are still in the prison cemeteries of the Siberian taiga)but the All-Seeing Lord God remembers them
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A lot of Ukrainian priests of martyrs passed to eternity in Siberian prisons.
Today is the birthday of one of them.
130 years ago:
11/18/1890 - Petro Vergun, a priest of the UGCC, Apostolic Visitor for Ukrainians in Germany, Austria, the Sudetenland (now the Czech Republic) and the General Province, a blessed priest-martyr, was born in a working-class family in Gorodok, Lviv Region.
Cornet UGA, graduated from the Roman Catholic Seminary in Prague, theological and philosophical department of Charles University, Ukrainian Free University (1921-1927), Doctor of Philosophy. In 1927, in Lviv, he was ordained a priest by Metropolitan A. Sheptytsky and appointed a missionary for Ukrainian Greek Catholics based in Berlin.
He popularized the Ukrainian Church in Germany, financed Ukrainian schools in Berlin and Hamburg, and financially supported students.
In 1937 he was appointed prelate by Pope Pius XII, and in 1940 he was appointed Apostolic Visitor with the rights of administrator. At the beginning of the Second World War, he organized assistance to Ukrainian ostarbeiters, care for the wounded and sick, and after the beginning of German repression against nationalists, the Visitator provided shelter for OUN underground. At the beginning of 1945 he refused to go to the West - he preferred to stay with his flock. On June 22, 1945, he was arrested by the Berlin operative sector of the NKVD and taken to Kyiv. Together with Metropolitan J. Slipy, Bishops M. Charnetsky and N. Budka, he appeared before the Kyiv Military Tribunal and was sentenced to 7 years in prison and exile.
In June 1952, after his release from prison, he was transferred to perpetual exile in the village of Angarske, Boguchansky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai.
In 1956 he was officially released, but was not allowed to leave the settlement. Soviet special services resumed interrogations in order to recruit agents for intelligence work abroad. He died exhausted by hard labor and interrogations in the village of Angarsk 1957.
2001 Pope John Paul II proclaims Blessed, the relics rest in the Cathedral of the Assumption in Stryi, part of the parish Church of the Annunciation in Gorodok and Munich.
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Today is the birthday of one of them.
130 years ago:
11/18/1890 - Petro Vergun, a priest of the UGCC, Apostolic Visitor for Ukrainians in Germany, Austria, the Sudetenland (now the Czech Republic) and the General Province, a blessed priest-martyr, was born in a working-class family in Gorodok, Lviv Region.
Cornet UGA, graduated from the Roman Catholic Seminary in Prague, theological and philosophical department of Charles University, Ukrainian Free University (1921-1927), Doctor of Philosophy. In 1927, in Lviv, he was ordained a priest by Metropolitan A. Sheptytsky and appointed a missionary for Ukrainian Greek Catholics based in Berlin.
He popularized the Ukrainian Church in Germany, financed Ukrainian schools in Berlin and Hamburg, and financially supported students.
In 1937 he was appointed prelate by Pope Pius XII, and in 1940 he was appointed Apostolic Visitor with the rights of administrator. At the beginning of the Second World War, he organized assistance to Ukrainian ostarbeiters, care for the wounded and sick, and after the beginning of German repression against nationalists, the Visitator provided shelter for OUN underground. At the beginning of 1945 he refused to go to the West - he preferred to stay with his flock. On June 22, 1945, he was arrested by the Berlin operative sector of the NKVD and taken to Kyiv. Together with Metropolitan J. Slipy, Bishops M. Charnetsky and N. Budka, he appeared before the Kyiv Military Tribunal and was sentenced to 7 years in prison and exile.
In June 1952, after his release from prison, he was transferred to perpetual exile in the village of Angarske, Boguchansky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai.
In 1956 he was officially released, but was not allowed to leave the settlement. Soviet special services resumed interrogations in order to recruit agents for intelligence work abroad. He died exhausted by hard labor and interrogations in the village of Angarsk 1957.
2001 Pope John Paul II proclaims Blessed, the relics rest in the Cathedral of the Assumption in Stryi, part of the parish Church of the Annunciation in Gorodok and Munich.
After the first interrogation, Fr. Peter Vergun wrote an addition to the protocol in pencil: “When asked about the political credo, I answered that Service to God, His church and my people is the essence of my life. I ask that 900,000 Ukrainian emigrants and 300 priests be able to return to their homeland. I sent a letter to Metropolitan Joseph Slypyi to the governments in Moscow and Kyiv with this request… "
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Kei
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May they pray for us! Truly, these great saints point to the greatness of God, and seemed to have truly lived out the parable of the pearl of great price. Praise be to God!
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