Biskup
Grzegorz Chomyszyn, 1933, Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe, Sygnatura: 1-R-895
Bienheureux Grégoire
Chomyshyn
Évêque de Stanislaviv et
martyr (+ 1945)
Né le 25 Mars 1867 à
Hadynkivtsi dans la région de Ternopil, après ses études de séminariste, il est
ordonné prêtre le 18 Novembre 1893. Sa formation théologique est enrichie par
des études à Vienne, de 1894 à 1899. En 1902, le métropolite Andriy Sheptytsky
nomme le P. Grégoire comme recteur du grand séminaire de Lviv. Il est ensuite
ordonné évêque pour Stanislaviv (aujourd'hui Ivano-Frankivsk) dans la
cathédrale Saint-Georges en 1904. En 1939, il est arrêté pour la première fois
par le NKVD (KGB). Après une deuxième arrestation, il est déporté à Kiev. Il y
meurt dans la prison du NKVD, le 17 Janvier 1945.
Hryhorij Khomyšyn a été
béatifié le 27 juin 2001 avec Mykola
Čarneckyj et 24 compagnons par Jean-Paul II à Lviv en Ukraine lors de
son voyage apostolique.
À Kiev en Ukraine, l’an
1945, le bienheureux Grégoire Chomyshyn, évêque de Stanislaviv et martyr.
Arrêté sous le régime soviétique athée, en raison de sa fidélité à la communion
avec l’Église romaine, il mourut en prison.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/11282/Bienheureux-Gregoire-Chomyshyn.html
Un évêque
gréco-catholique ukrainien dans la tourmente
Le martyre de Mgr Grégory
Khomysyn
17 janvier 2013Anita BourdinÉcriture
Sainte, théologie
Le martyrologe romain
fait aujourd’hui mémoire du bienheureux Grégory Khomysyn, évêque
gréco-catholique ukrainien et martyr (1867-1947).
Il fait partie des
vingt-sept bienheureux de l’Eglise gréco-catholique béatifiés par Jean-Paul II,
lors de son premier voyage en Ukraine, en juin 2001.
C’était la première fois
que des causes de béatifications de serviteurs de Dieu de l’Eglise gréco-catholique
ukrainienne pouvaient menées d’un bout à l’autre par des membres de cette même
Eglise.
Grégory Khomysyn était né
dans le village de Hadynkivtsi, dans le district de Ternopil. Après son
ordination sacerdotale, il alla compléter sa formation théologique à Vienne
(1894-1899). En 1902, le Métropolite André Sheptytsky le nomma recteur du grand
séminaire de Lviv.
En 1904, il devint évêque
de Stanislaviv (Ivano-Frankivsk). En 1939, il fut arrêté une première fois par
les services secrets soviétiques (NKVD à l’époque). Une seconde arrestation, en
avril 1945, fut suivie d’une déportation à Kiev. C’est là qu’il mourut, dans la
prison du NKVD, le 17 janvier 1947.
SOURCE : https://fr.zenit.org/articles/un-eveque-greco-catholique-ukrainien-dans-la-tourmente/
2 April 2010, 7:13 pm
Also
known as
Gregor Khomysyn
Gregory Chomyshyn
Gregory Khomyshyn
Grzegorz Chomyszyn
Hryhorij Khomyshyn
Hryhorij Khomysyn
Hryhory Khomyshyn
Hryhory Khomysyn
17 January on
some calendars
27 June as
one of the Martyrs
Killed Under Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe
Profile
Greek
Catholic. Ordained on 18 November 1893. Studied theology at Vienna, Austria from 1894 to 1899. Rector of
the seminary in
Lviv, Ukraine in 1902. Bishop of Stanislaviv (modern
Ivano-Frankivsk), Ukraine on 6 May 1904. Arrested for
his faith in 1939 by
the NKVD. Arrested again
in April 1945;
deported to Kiev, Ukraine. Died in prison.
One of the Martyrs
Killed Under Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe.
Born
25 March 1867 at
Hadynkivtsi, Ternopil District, Ukraine
17 January 1947 in NKVD prison in
Kiev, Ukraine
24 April 2001 by Pope John
Paul II (decree of martyrdom)
27 June 2001 by Pope John
Paul II in Ukraine
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Citation
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7 July 2023. Web. 20 August 2026.
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Bl. Gregory Khomyshyn
Feastday: January 17
Birth: 1867
Death: 1947
Beatified: 27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II in Ukraine
Gregory Khomyshyn was a
Greek Catholic. He was ordained on November 18, 1893. Studied theology at
Vienna, Austria from 1894 to 1899. Rector of the seminary in Lviv, Ukraine in
1902. Bishop of Stanislaviv (modern Ivano-Frankivsk), Ukraine on 6 May 1904. Arrested
for his faith in 1939. Arrested again in April 1945; deported to Kiev, Ukraine.
Died in prison. One of the Martyrs Killed Under Communist Regimes in Eastern
Europe
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=7230
The Servant of God Bishop Hryhory
Khomyshyn was born on 25 March 1867 in the village of Hadynkivtsi,
Ternopil District. After graduating from the seminary he was ordained to the
priesthood on 18 November 1893. His theological education was enriched during
further studies in Vienna from 1894-1899. In 1902, Metropolitan Andriy
Sheptytsky appointed Fr Gregory as Rector of the seminary in Lviv. Fr Gregory
was ordained bishop for Stanislaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk) in St George
Cathedral in 1904. In 1939, he was arrested for the first time by the NKVD
(KGB). His second arrest was in April 1945, after which he was deported to
Kyiv. He died in Kyiv's NKVD prison on 17 January 1947.
SOURCE : http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20010627_carneckyj_en.html
Blessed Hryhoriy Khomyshyn
The Blessed Hryhoriy Khomyshyn (also Hryhorij
Khomyshyn, Ukrainian: Григорій Лукич Хомишин, Polish: Grzegorz Chomyszyn) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop and hieromartyr.
Khomyshyn was born on 25
March 1867 in the village of Hadynkivtsi, eastern Galicia, in what is now Ternopil Oblast.[1] He graduated from
the seminary and was ordained a priest on 18 November 1893.[2] He continued to
study theology at the University of Vienna from 1894 to 1899,
and in 1902, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky appointed Khomyshyn
the rector of the Greek Catholic Theological
Seminary in Lviv.[1] In 1904, he was consecrated as the bishop
for Stanyslaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk) at St. George's Cathedral. Throughout his
tenure, spanning over four decades, he was considered the second most powerful
figure in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.[3] [4]
Unlike Sheptytsky,
Khomyshyn believed that the UGCC should adopt a more westward orientation,
further emphasizing the Uniate Church's relationship with Rome.[5] This
meant introducing Latinized practicies such as the Gregorian calendar and a strict adherence
to clerical celibacy, which were
met with controversy in his eparchy.[6] [7]
During the 1930s,
Khomyshyn was responsible for organizing the Ukrainian Catholic People's Party,
which briefly held seats in the Sejm and Senate.[6] He is noted as being one of only a
handful of members of the Catholic hierarchy in interwar Poland to publicly oppose anti-Semitism; his tolerance towards Galician Jews likely owing to his own experience as
part of Poland's Ukrainian minority.[8] [9] As a result of his moderate
approach to Ukrainian nationalism, he would be labeled a "sellout" by
the OUN and was left fearing for his life.[7] [10]
Khomyshyn was first
arrested in 1939 by the NKVD. A critic of the Soviet system, having called the occupying
forces "fierce beasts animated by the devil,"[11] he was
arrested again in April 1945, and was then deported to Kiev. In prison, he was tortured and advised to renounce
the Union of Brest, which he refused to do.[12]
He died in the Lukyanivska Prison hospital in Kiev on 17
January 1947. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 27 June 2001, as one
of Mykolai Charnets'kyi and
the 24 companion martyrs.[2]
References
1. "Biographies
of twenty five Greek-Catholic Servants of God" at the website of
the Vatican
2. "Beatification
of the Servants of God on June 27, 2001" at the website of
the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
3. "The
Structure of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church" at the Ukrainian Catholic University's
Institute of Church History website
4. John
F. Pollard. The
Papacy in the Age of Totalitarianism, 1914-1958. Oxford University
Press, 2014. pg 306
5. Stéphanie
Mahieu, Vlad Naumescu. Churches
In-between: Greek Catholic Churches in Postsocialist Europe. LIT
Verlag, 2008. pg 48
6. Ivan
Katchanovski, Zenon E. Kohut, Bohdan Y. Nebesio, Myroslav Yurkevich. Historical
Dictionary of Ukraine. Scarecrow Press, 2013. pg 263-264
7. Myroslav
Shkandrij. Ukrainian
Nationalism: Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929-1956. Yale
University Press, 2015. pg 31-32
8. Joanna
B. Michlic. Poland's
Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present. University
of Nebraska Press, 2006. pg 77-78
9. Ronald
Modras. The
Catholic Church and Antisemitism: Poland, 1933-1939. Routledge, 2005.
pg 360-361
10. Matthew
Feldman, Marius Turda, Tudor Georgescu. Clerical
Fascism in Interwar Europe. Routledge, 2013. pg 66-68
11. Pierre
Blet. Pius
XII and the Second World War: According to the Archives of the Vatican. Paulist
Press, 1999. pg 76-77
12. Willem
Adriaan Veenhoven, Winifred Crum Ewing, Stichting Plurale Samenlevingen. Case
studies on human rights and fundamental freedoms: a world survey. Martinus
Nijhoff Publishers, 1976. pg 477
External links
· Blessed
Hryhory Khomyshyn at CatholicSaints.info
· Bishop
Bl. Grigorij Chomyszyn (Khomyshyn) at Catholic-Hierarchy.org
· Bl.
Gregory Chomyshyn (in Polish)
· "Story
of faith, of secrecy, of death -- and life", 2001 article in the Baltimore Sun
Catholic Church title
Eparch of Stanislaviv 1904-1947
Eparch of Stanislaviv 1904-1947
Preceded byAndrey Sheptytsky
Succeeded byIvan Slezyuk
SOURCE : https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Gregory%20Khomyshyn&item_type=topic
Glorious Ukrainian
Martyrs, Victims of Communist Barbarity
Having just read on Zenit News website about
the vocation surge in Ukraine — which, unfortunately, for half of those
aspiring to the priesthood, is more than the seminaries can handle — I don’t
know whether to weep or rejoice. Something ought to be done — and quickly — to
accommodate these young men. Delay is not a good thing when the summons from
God takes root in a soul. Perhaps, for the older aspirants, they could be
sent to Rome. Let’s keep this situation in our prayer intentions, lest the fire
be diminished in hearts that are ready, but have found no room yet in the inn.
The Ukrainian Church is
the largest of the eastern rite Churches in union with Rome. They number five
million faithful. At the beatification process of the martyr Saint Josaphat,
born in Volodymyr, Volyn (which today is in Ukraine) in 1643, whom we must
remember is the Church’s official patron saint of unity, Pope Urban VIII
uttered these prophetic words: “Oh my Ukrainians, I look to you to convert
the East.”
The Stalin Persecution
and Genocide
The Ukrainian Catholics,
religious and lay, suffered intense persecution from the Russian communists,
especially under the cruel dictator Joseph Stalin and his savage enforcer, the
“Butcher of Ukraine,” Lazar Moses Kaganovich, chairman of the Soviet Presidium.
Stalin’s collectivization of the people’s farms and confiscation of their grain
from 1932-1933, led to the forced starvation of ten million Ukrainians. This
was done as a punishment for the rise in Ukrainian patriotism and the emergence
of a powerful nationalist movement that arose about a decade after the
Bolsheviks took over. Kaganovich, who had already spearheaded the murderous
purges in Russia, posted armed guards at all the grainaries to prevent the
Ukrainian people from access to their own harvest and when starving people
tried to reach the border in search of food they were gunned down. The West
ignored the crisis, preferring to believe the USSR propaganda that there was a
famine. Only one pro-Soviet American reporter, Walter Duranty of the New York
Times, was allowed into Ukraine at the time. In that paper he denied the
genocide calling it “partial crop failures.” Sometime after receiving the
Pulitzer Prize for journalism, he later admitted, according to British
Diplomatic Reports, that “as many as ten million” may have perished.
Reasonable estimates put
the percentage of murdered Ukrainians in that two-year period at a quarter of
the population, roughly ten million. Most of the victims were poor children.
When the granaries were re-opened in 1934, the people were reeling in shock and
despair. Before the genocide, the Catholic Church was flourishing in Ukraine,
or at least it appeared to be. There were many vocations to the religious life,
especially in Lviv, Ukraine’s cultural center, where seminaries and monasteries
thrived. After and during the horrific two-year ordeal many lost faith in God,
but others accepted the chastisement as a purification and the seminaries and
convents began to rebound. The suffering under the yoke of Communism was not over,
it would last for another sixty-four years (except for the Nazi occupation from
1941-1944), until the nation achieved its independence from the Soviet Union in
1991.
Genocide wasn’t enough,
Stalin still wanted absolute control over all of Ukraine. In 1939, he sent his
Red Army into western Ukraine; prior to this it was the eastern part of the
country that took the brunt of his sadistic brutality. There was now only one
major force in his way, the Catholic Church. Half of the Catholics in Ukraine
had been deported and dozens of priests executed. The schismatic Orthodox
Church, under the Moscow Patriarchate, cooperated with the Communist Party and
kept its worship private. The Catholic Church (i.e., the Ukrainian Greek
Catholic Church) under the authority of the pope continued its mission as
mandated by Christ to teach, preach, administer the sacraments wherever needed,
and evangelize. In 1939, the order came down from Stalin to intensify the
persecution of the Roman Catholic Church in western Ukraine, liquidate it by
terror if its leaders could not be bought outright. Everything the Church owned
was confiscated — convents, schools, hospitals, the Catholic press, and many
Catholic churches were burnt to the ground. It was during the height of the
persecution, in 1941, that the Nazis drove the Reds out of Ukraine. With
Germany’s defeat in WWII, the communists re-consolidated their hold in Ukraine,
half the Catholic clergy were sent to prison and one- fifth were exiled; the
schismatic orthodox took over all the Catholic churches and all Church
properties were seized by the atheistic state.
Beatifications and
Canonizations, a Strong Spiritual Stimulus
On June 27, 2001, Pope
John Paul II beatified twenty-eight Ukrainian martyrs: bishops, priests, nuns,
and one layman who suffered and died for Christ and His Vicar under the
communist scourge. Now, ten years later, we read about the flood of vocations
in Ukraine, which has caused the seminaries to turn back half of the young men
seeking to enter. There is certainly a connection to be made here.
Beatifications and canonizations of saints can lift up the soul of a nation,
especially when the venerated are martyrs. Father Igor Luzar, postulator
for the cause of Venerable Lojze Grozde, a nineteen-year-old Catholic martyred
by communist thugs for carrying prayer books in his pocket, said that the
beatification of Blessed Lojze represents “a strong spiritual stimulus” for the
people of Slovenia. How true! How true for Slovenia; how true for Ukraine! I
might add, how true this would be for China, a country which has produced
countless martyrs who have suffered and died in communist prisons and labor
camps, and whose faithful still are suffering various forms of incarceration
and slave labor for their Faith in Christ and fidelity to His Vicar on earth.
Below I will post a list of these twenty-eight beatified bishops, priests, nuns, and one layman of Ukraine with a brief sketch of the more important facts concerning them.
Champions of the Faith:
Feodorov, Sheptytsky, and Slipyi
Three figures stand out
that personify the fortitude of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. They are
Exarch Leonid Feodorov, Metropolitan Andrej Sheptytsky, and Joseph Cardinal
Slipyi.
Blessed Martyr, Exarch
Leonid Feodorov was a convert to the Faith from Russian Orthodoxy. He
entered the Church while studying in Rome and joined the monks of the Studite
Order in Bosnia. He came back to Tsarist Russia as a Catholic priest during
WWI. The Catholic Church being at the time outlawed by the schismatics, he was
caught, arrested, and sent to Siberia. When he was released in 1917, he was
appointed head of the Russian Greek Catholic Church as Exarch. Then, six years
later, the communists arrested him and sent him to prison. After ten years of
incarceration, he died in exile in 1935, a martyr for the Faith and Church
unity. Unlike the other subjects of this article, Exarch Feodorov was not
Ukrainian but Russian.
Seven-foot tall, Metropolitan
Andrej Sheptytsky, who continued the Exarch’s work for bringing the schismatics
back to unity with the pope, wanted him canonized. Many of the priests and
bishops, including Joseph Slipyi, were ordained and/or consecrated by
Sheptytsky. Although he was not called to follow them in blood martyrdom, they
were his spiritual sons, each of them inspired by the Metropolitan’s wisdom,
courage, and holiness. He was called the “Moses” of the people of Ukraine. You
can read the life story of this great apostle for Church unity here on our website.
Joseph Slipyi was
born in western Ukraine in 1882 to a well-to-do Catholic family. He entered the
diocesan seminary while studying philosophy at the University of Lviv. He was
ordained in 1917. He was then sent to Rome for more studies and, completing his
doctorate in theology, he returned to Lviv where he taught in the university
there as rector of the Theology Academy. During this time he wrote numerous
books on the Faith. In 1939, because of the monitoring of religious groups by
the KGB, Metropolitan Sheptytsky secretly consecrated Slipyi Archbishop of Lviv
with the right to succeed him. In 1944 the Reds took over Ukraine again, after
the defeat of the Nazis, just months before Sheptytsky died. In April, 1945,
Slipyi was arrested and taken to prison in Kyiv, as were many other priests and
bishops. He was told that all that he had to do to gain his freedom was to
submit to the schismatic Patriarch of Moscow, a pawn of the communists. When
the communists re-consolidated their hold in Ukraine the schismatic orthodox
took over all the Catholic churches, as mentioned above. All the other
properties of the Church were seized by the atheistic state. When Metropolitan
Joseph refused to sever his allegiance to the pope he was sentenced to eight
years of hard labor and put on a train headed for the gulag in Siberia. That
sentence was extended three times before he was sent to the worst hellhole of
all, Siberia’s Morodovvia “from which [camp] no one comes out alive.” From
there he wrote letters, from one of which the following excerpt is taken:
“What a blessing this
Siberia has been for us all, for all the followers of Christ, for the growth
and the life of Christ’s kingdom. This place, once barren, today is soaked with
the bloody sweat of prisoners and the unconquered sons of an enslaved nation.
Not only laments and curses have come forth from this alien land . . . Words of
calm and sincere prayer have also gone up to the Almighty . . . For a number of
years now, from various corners and caves the new sacrifice of the Body and
Blood of Christ has been offered. A spiritual school has been born and thrives,
which helps in the upbringing of new ministers of Christ. This very Siberian
land has seen a truly new human being, true Christians, true and faithful sons
of Christ’s Church . . .”
In 1963, with the help of
the U.S. State Department, Pope John XXIII procured Slipyi’s release. In 1965,
his secret elevation to the cardinalate by Pope Pius XII (in pectore) was made
known publicly at Pope Paul VI’s first consistory. The pope, however, resisted
the pressure to confer the title Patriarch on Slipyi, lest he incur the fury of
the schismatic Ukrainian Orthodox hierarchs who were under the Moscow
Patriarch. Instead a new title was invented, Major Archbishop, for the chief
hierarch in the UGCC. Having no stomach for any compromising détente with
Moscow, Cardinal Slipyi reluctantly bowed to Pope Paul’s wishes. He did,
however, ruffle feathers in the Curia when, in 1977, acting as it were
“patriarchal,” he consecrated three bishops without papal approval. This is
forbidden by the canon law of the Latin Church, but not under the code of the
eastern rites. Disillusioned with compromise, he still remained loyal to the
Pope and the unity of the Church for which he suffered so much, until his death
in 1984. He died in exile, in Rome, at the age of ninety-two. His cause
for canonization has been introduced.
Introducing the
Twenty-Eight New Ukrainian Beati
Here are the twenty-eight
Ukrainians beatified by Pope John Paul II June 27, 2000. All of the following
information is culled from the magnificent booklet: Church of the Martyrs,
The New Saints of Ukraine. The booklet was published in Lviv at Saint John’s
Monastery, but it can be obtained from the Redemptorists, 250 Jefferson Ave.,
Winnipeg, Canada, R2V 0M6.
Sister Josaphata
Hordashevska: She was born in Lviv in 1869. In 1892, she founded what would be
the largest female religious community in the Ukrainian Catholic Church, the
Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate. An example of holiness and charity in
performing her labors among the poor, she died of bone cancer in 1919.
Priest and Martyr,
Nicholas Konrad: Born in 1876, he studied for the priesthood in Rome. He was
ordained in 1899. He was very active with the Catholic students whom he taught
in Lviv, forming an association with them, called Renewal, to enhance their
spiritual lives. Returning from a sick call, he was accosted by thugs from the
KGB and beaten to death on June 26, 1941.
Martyr Volodymyr, Cantor:
He was martyred together with Father Konrad.
Priest and Martyr, Andrew
Ishchak: Born in Lviv region. After earning his doctorate in theology in 1914,
he was ordained a priest. He taught at the Lviv Theological Academy. While
doing pastoral work, he was killed for the Faith by soldiers of the retreating
Red Army on June 26, 1941. Notice that the first three of the martyrs listed
were slain on the same day, June 26, 1941.
Priest and Martyr,
Severian Baranyk: Born in 1889, he joined the Basilian Fathers in 1904. He
became prior of a Basilian monastery, where he was known for his habitual joy
and his work with the youth and orphans. He was arrested by the KGB and sent to
prison and died there of multiple fractures in June, 1941.
Priest and Martyr,
Joachim Senkivskyi: Born in 1896, he was ordained a priest in 1921. He earned a
doctorate in theology at the University of Innsbruck, afterwards he joined the
Basilians. Father Joachim was extremely active doing pastoral work in several
villages and, later, he was made abbot of a Basilian monastery. He was arrested
during the blitzkrieg KGB sweep of June 26, 1941 and sent to the local prison.
Three days later, according to the testimony of other prisoners, he was boiled
to death.
Priest and Martyr,
Zynovil Kovalyk: Born in 1903, he entered the Redemptorists in 1926. After
studying in Belgium, he returned to Ukraine and was ordained in 1937. In 1940,
while preaching a homily he was seized by the Reds and thrown into prison. He
was tortured horribly during his incarceration and finally crucified in mockery
of His Savior at the end of June, 1941.
Priest and Martyr,
Emilian Kowcz: Born in 1884, he went to Rome to study for the priesthood.
There, he was ordained in 1911. Father Emilian was a married man prior to
ordination. He served as chaplain for a while and worked among the poor and the
soldiers during WWII. Arrested by the Gestapo, he died praying for and giving
consolation to fellow prisoners in a concentration camp in 1942.
Nun and Martyr, Sister
Tarsykiia Matskiv: She made her religious profession in 1940 with the Sisters
Servants of Mary Immaculate, founded by Blessed Sister Josaphata. Even before
the Reds over ran Lviv she had made a private vow with her confessor to
sacrifice her life for the conversion of Russia and the good of the Church. On
July 17, 1944, Soviet soldiers surrounded her convent. Sister heard a knock at
the door and opened it, thinking it was a priest whose arrival the sisters were
awaiting. A shot rang out and Sister Tarsykiia fell dead. Her sacrificial
intention was accepted unto martyrdom.
Priest and Martyr,
Vitalis Bairak: Born in 1907, he entered the Basilian Order in 1924. In 1941 he
was appointed superior of the Drohobych monastery to take the place of recently
martyred Father Joachim. He was arrested by the KGB in 1945 and sent to the same
local prison where Father Joachim was boiled to death. In this horror house he
was savagely beaten and, just prior to Easter, 1946, he died of his wounds.
Priest and Martyr, Roman
Lysko: Born in 1914 in the Lviv region. Married, he attended the Lviv Theological
Academy. He was ordained a priest by Metropolitan Sheptytsky. Refusing to sign
a statement of conversion to the Orthodox Church, he was arrested in 1949 and
imprisoned in Lviv and allowed no visitors. The date of his death is unknown.
Reports had it that he was sealed up alive in a wall, a martyr for the Faith
and Church unity.
Bishop and Martyr,
Gregory Khomyshyn: Born in 1867, he attended the Lviv seminary in his youth.
Ordained in 1893, he continued studies in Vienna, where he earned a doctorate.
Metropolitan Sheptytsky appointed him rector of the Lviv seminary and
consecrated him a bishop in 1904. He was arrested by the KGB for the first time
in 1939 and again in 1945. He died of ill health that same year while in
prison.
Bishop and Martyr, Theodore
Romzha: Born in 1911, he went to Rome to study for the priesthood at the
Gregorian University. After ordination he returned to Ukraine where he was
assigned pastoral work in remote villages. He also taught philosophy in the
seminary. In 1944 he was consecrated bishop, and in his post as shepherd he
refused every attempt by the communists to get him to join the Orthodox Church.
In October, 1947, communist soldiers rammed a military vehicle into his
carriage in an attempt to kill him and his companions. Seeing that he survived,
they beat him and the others into unconsciousness. While recovering in a
hospital he was poisoned to death.
Bishop and Martyr,
Josaphat Kotsylovskyi: Born in 1876, he studied for the priesthood in Rome.
After ordination, he taught theology at the Stanislaviv Seminary in Ukraine. He
entered the Basilian Order during this time. In 1917, when Metropolitan
Sheptytsky returned from prison in Russia, he consecrated Father Josaphat a
bishop in Poland. The bishop was arrested in Poland by the communists who took
him to Russia and then to a prison in Kiev. He died a martyr in a concentration
camp in Kiev in 1947.
Bishop and Martyr, Nykyta
Budka: Born in 1877, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1905 by Metropolitan
Sheptytsky. Assigned to minister to Ukrainian emigrants, he was consecrated
bishop in 1912 and appointed the first bishop for Ukrainian Catholics in
Canada. In 1928, he returned to Lviv, where he served as Vicar General for the
Metropolitan’s curia. Arrested with other bishops in 1945, he was sent to the
gulag. He died in a labor camp in Kazakhstan in 1949.
Bishop and Martyr,
Gregory Lakota: Born in 1883 in the Lviv region, he studied theology at the
Lviv Academy. He was ordained to the priesthood in Poland in 1908. He served
for eighteen years as professor and rector in the seminary at Przemysl before
being consecrated that city’s bishop in 1926. Arrested in 1946, he was
sentenced to ten years imprisonment. He was then exiled to a labor camp in
Vorkuta, Russia. Bishop Gregory was beloved by his fellow prisoners, often
taking on the labors of others in order to ease their suffering. He died near
Vorkuta in 1950.
Priest and Martyr,
Archimandrite Clement Sheptytsky: Younger brother of Metropolitan Sheptytsky,
Abbot Clement was born in 1869. He studied law and received a doctorate from
the University of Krakow. After serving various governmental positions in
Austria, he entered the Studite monastery in 1912. He was ordained a priest in
1915. He was elected prior and later abbot of the Studite monastery at Univ,
Ukraine. In 1947, the abbot was arrested by the KGB in Kiev. He died in prison
in 1951 in Vladmir, Russia.
Priest and Martyr,
Nicholas Tsehelskyi: Born in 1896, he graduated from the Theology Academy at
Lviv University in 1923. He was ordained a priest in 1925 by Metropolitan
Sheptytsky. He suffered much as a priest, both from threats and beatings,
because he refused to become an Orthodox. He was arrested by the Reds in 1946
and sentenced to ten years imprisonment. Father Nicholas had a wife and three
children who were taken into custody and sent to Russia’s Chita region. Father
Nicholas was deported to a notoriously severe labor camp in Russia’s Mordovia.
Here he died, in 1951, while enduring with great patience a painful illness that
resulted from his cruel treatment.
Priest and Martyr, Ivan
Ziatyk: Born in 1899, he was ordained in 1923. Twelve years later, he joined
the Redemptorists. He was appointed superior of the congregation in Ternopil,
and served in this capacity during the Nazi occupation. He was arrested by the
communists in 1950 for the crime of “preaching the ideas of the Pope of Rome
regarding the spread of the Catholic Faith among the nations of the whole
world.” He was sent to prison in Russia where he endured the torture of
seventy-five interrogation sessions. He gave his life for Christ in 1952 after
being savagely beaten and thrown out in the cold drenched with water. He died
later in the prison infirmary.
Nun and Martyr, Sister
Olympia Bida: Born in 1903 in the Lviv region of Ukraine, she entered as a
young woman the congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph. She later became
the superior of one of their convents. When the Soviets took over Ukraine after
WWII, the convent suffered a number of attacks. In 1950, she was arrested by
soldiers of the KGB and taken to a harsh labor camp in Siberia. She was
sentenced for her “anti-Soviet activities.” This is where she died, in 1952,
after enduring intense suffering.
Nun and Martyr, Sister
Lavrentia Herasymiv: Born in the Lviv region in 1911, she entered the convent
of the Sisters of Saint Joseph in Tsebliv at the age of twenty. After taking
first vows she joined Sister Olympia at the convent in Khyriv. She was arrested
with Sister Olympia in 1950 and, already sick with tuberculosis, sent to the
same labor camp. She died the same year as her devoted companion from the
inhuman conditions in which she was forced to live.
Priest and Martyr, Peter
Verhun: Born in the Lviv region in 1890, he studied philosophy and earned a
Ph.D. He was ordained a priest by Metropolitan Sheptytsky in 1927 and later
sent to Germany as Apostolic Visitator for the Ukrainian Catholics who lived
there. Beloved by his flock, he was hated by the Soviet communists in Berlin.
They arrested him and sent him to do eight years of hard labor in Siberia. He
continued his priestly work among the prisoners amid the harshest of
conditions. He died in exile in 1957.
Priest and Martyr,
Oleksii Zarytskyi: Born in the Lviv region in 1912, he pursued his
studies as a young man at the Theological Academy in Lviv. Metropolitan
Sheptytsky ordained him a priest in 1936 and assigned him to serve as pastor in
the village of Strutyn. The KGB arrested him in 1948 and sentenced him to a
labor camp in Siberia for the crime of refusing to renounce his Catholic Faith
and join the Orthodox Church. After his release he returned to western Ukraine
and worked tirelessly, not only among his own people, but among Poles, Germans,
and even Russians. Despite the danger, he visited Metropolitan Josef Slipyi
when he was in exile. Arrested a second time, he was sent to a labor camp in
Karaganda where he died two years later in 1963.
Bishop and Martyr
Nicholas Charnetskyi: Born in 1884, in the Stanislaviv region of Ukraine, he
studied for the priesthood first in Ukraine, then in Rome. He was ordained in
Rome in 1909 after earning a doctorate in dogmatic theology. Returning to
Ukraine, he taught in the seminary at Stanislaviv and, ten years later, joined
the Redemptorists in Lviv. In 1926, he was appointed Apostolic Visitator for
the eastern rite Catholics living in Poland. His main work was trying to ignite
a desire among the Orthodox to return to unity under the pope. In 1931, Father
Nicholas was consecrated a bishop. Fourteen years later his Calvary began in
earnest. Arrested by the KGB in 1945, he was sent to a notoriously hard labor
camp in Siberia. For the next eleven years he was interrogated for a total of
six hundred hours, tortured, and shuffled around thirty different camps.
Terminally ill, he was allowed to return to Ukraine in 1956 where he continued
to perform his episcopal duties. Known for his outstanding patience and
goodness, he was, in his own lifetime, considered a saint. He died as a result
of his maltreatment in 1959.
Bishop and Martyr, Simeon
Lukach: Born in 1893, he entered the seminary of Stanislaviv near his home
village. Ordained in 1919, he taught moral theology at the same seminary.
Secretly, in 1945, he was consecrated a bishop by Blessed Bishop Gregory
Chomyshyn, who was expecting his own imminent arrest. Bishop Gregory’s account
was given earlier in this tribute. A year later, the Bishop was arrested by the
Soviet KGB and sentenced to hard labor at a lumber camp in Krasnoyarsk. He was
freed in 1955 and returned to Ukraine. In 1962, he was arrested again and sent
to a worse camp. After two years, dying from tuberculosis, the Bishop was
allowed to return to his home village. He died a martyr shortly thereafter, in
1964, as a result of his maltreatment.
Bishop and Martyr, Ivan Sleziuk:
Born in 1896 in the same region as the two previously-mentioned martyrs, he
entered the eparchial seminary, graduating in 1923, and ordained the same year.
He, too, was secretly ordained by Bishop Gregory Chomyshyn just prior to the
latter’s arrest in 1945. Two months after his consecration, he was arrested and
sent to a labor camp in Moldovia, Russia. When he was released he returned to
his post and served as eparchical administrator. But, in 1962, he was arrested
again, together with Bishop Simeon Lukach. Six more years were spent in hard
labor. Even after his release in 1968, he was continually harassed by the KGB.
After one of their sadistic summons for a “conversation,” he fell so ill that
he never recovered. He died a martyr in 1973.
Bishop and Martyr, Basil
Velychkovskyi: Born in 1903, also in the Stanislaviv region, he entered the
seminary in Lviv. In 1925, he was ordained and took vows as a Redemptorist.
After years of missionary work in Volyn, he was elected prior for the house in
Ternopil. He was arrested in 1945 and sentenced to hard labor at a Siberian
camp above the Arctic Circle. Released in 1955, he returned to Lviv where he
continued with his pastoral work. In 1963, in a Moscow hotel, he was secretly
consecrated an archbishop by Metropolitan Slipyi, who was on his way to exile
in Rome. His assignment was to head the underground Ukrainian Catholic Church
and to secure the apostolic succession for the catacombed UGCC. In 1969,
Archbishop Basil was arrested again and sent to prison where he was subjected
to physical, chemical, and psychological torture. Three years later, he was
released but sent outside the USSR and Ukraine into exile. With a failing
heart, caused by the treatment he received in prison, he went to Canada to lead
the Ukrainian Catholic diaspora which had immigrated to that country.
Archbishop Basil died a martyr, in Winnipeg, in June of 1973. There is a
martyrs shrine, dedicated to him and other Redemptorist martyrs, at Saint
Joseph’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Winnipeg. Pilgrims have flocked to his
tomb seeking healings ever since his mortal remains, fully intact, were
transferred to the shrine in 2002.
Martyr and Exarch, Leonid
Feodorov. The brief sketch of his life was given earlier.
SOURCE : https://catholicism.org/glorious-ukrainian-martyrs-victims-of-communist-barbarity.html
Beato Hryhorij Khomysyn Vescovo
e martire ucraino
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Hadynkivtsi, Ternopil, 25
marzo 1867 - Kiev, 28 dicembre 1945
Nacque il 25 marzo 1867
nel villaggio di Hadynkivtsi (regione di Ternopil, in Ucraina). Dopo gli studi
compiuti presso il seminario di Lviv, il 18 novembre 1893, venne ordinato
sacerdote. Nel 1902 fu nominato rettore del seminario; il 19 giugno 1904
venne ordinato vescovo dell’Eparchia di Stanislaviv oggi
Ivano-Frankivsk. Fu arrestato dalle autorità comuniste prima nel 1939 e
poi l’11 aprile del 1945. A causa delle torture subite e delle percosse
ricevute durante gli interrogatori, il beato Hryhorij morì il 28 dicembre 1945
nell’ospedale del carcere di Lukianivska a Kiev. Fa parte del gruppo di 26
martiri della Chiesa greco-cattolica morti fra il 1935 e il 1973, perseguitati
dal regime comunista che appoggiava la Chiesa ortodossa a cui essi rifiutavano
di aderire. Sono stati beatificati da Giovanni Paolo II nel 2001 a Leopoli
(Lviv), durante il viaggio apostolico in Ucraina.
Emblema: Bastone
pastorale, Palma
Martirologio Romano: A
Kiev in Ucraina, beato Gregorio Khomyšyn, vescovo di Ivano-Frankivsk e martire,
che, durante la persecuzione contro la fede, meritò di sedere al banchetto
celeste dell’Agnello.
Il beato nacque il 25
marzo 1867 nel villaggio di Hadynkivtsi (regione di Ternopil). Dopo gli studi
compiuti presso il seminario di Lviv, il 18 novembre 1893, venne ordinato
sacredote. Nel 1902 fu nominato Rettore del Seminario; il 19 giugno 1904
venne ordinato vescovo dell’Eparchia di Stanislaviv oggi Ivano-Frankivsk.
Fu arrestato dalle
autorità comuniste prima nel 1939 e poi l’11 aprile del 1945. A causa delle
torture subite e delle percosse ricevute durante i famigerati interrogatori, il
beato Hryhorij morì il 28 dicembre 1945 nell’ospedale del carcere di Lukianivska
a Kiev.
Fa parte del gruppo di 26
martiri della Chiesa greco-cattolica morti fra il 1935 e il 1973, perseguitati
dal regime comunista che appoggiava la Chiesa ortodossa a cui essi rifiutavano
di aderire; sono stati beatificati da papa Giovanni Paolo II il 27 giugno 2001
a Leopoli (Lviv) durante il suo pellegrinaggio apostolico in Ucraina.
Autore: Antonio Borrelli
Il vescovo Grigorij nasce nel villaggio Gadynkivci, provincia di Ternopol’. Frequenta le scuole elementari nel villaggio natale, il ginnasio a Ternopol’, e studia teologia all’Università di Leopoli. Viene ordinato sacerdote nel 1893. Per breve tempo è vicario della cattedrale di Stanislavov, poi si reca a Vienna a perfezionare gli studi e ottiene il titolo di dottore in teologia. Nel 1899 ritorna in patria, insegna teologia in vari istituti, finché il metropolita Šeptickij lo designa rettore del seminario di Leopoli e nel 1904 lo consacra vescovo della diocesi di Stanislavov (oggi Ivano-Frankovsk).
Nella sua attività pastorale il nuovo vescovo riserva particolare attenzione alla formazione del clero, promuove iniziative nel campo della missione interna, incoraggia e aiuta le congregazioni monastiche, sia maschili che femminili. Negli anni ‘20 chiama i redentoristi a fondare un loro monastero a Stanislavov, nel 1928 invita le suore greco-cattoliche della congregazione delle Mirofore di Maria Maddalena. Durante l’occupazione sovietica, dopo la chiusura del monastero, le suore, in clandestinità, riescono a conservare la propria comunità lavorando negli ospedali di Stanislavov. I soldi che guadagnano servono per aiutare i sacerdoti detenuti in Siberia. Nessuna delle monache abbandona la propria congregazione durante il periodo della clandestinità. Quando nel 1904 il vescovo Grigorij aveva iniziato il suo ministero pastorale, nella diocesi di Stanislavov vi erano solo un monastero maschile e quattro femminili, nel 1935 vi sono sette monasteri maschili e trentaquattro femminili.
Il vescovo Grigorij favorisce la fondazione di scuole e biblioteche parrocchiali e promuove la stampa cattolica. La rivista diocesana «La verità» esce in 25.000 copie. Nel 1935 fonda la fraternità Skala (La Roccia), che ha il compito di difendere il cristianesimo soprattutto contro le idee diffuse dal comunismo. Scrive più di trenta lettere pastorali. Inoltre è autore di numerosi libri. Fra i principiali ricordiamo: La santissima Eucarestia (1912), La Liturgia del Sacro Cuore di nostro Signore Gesù Cristo. Manuale per sacerdoti (1920), Sul rito bizantino (1931), Il problema ucraino (1932), La missione parrocchiale (1934).
Quando, durante la Prima Guerra Mondiale, nel 1914, il metropolita Andrej Šeptickij viene arrestato e trasferito nella zona centrale della Russia, la direzione della Metropolia della Chiesa greco-cattolica ucraina viene affidata al vescovo Grigorij. Durante la seconda guerra mondiale il vescovo interviene decisamente contro la persecuzione degli ebrei, invitando i fedeli a difenderli dai nazisti. In una predica in cattedrale così dice: «Non uccidere! il sangue degli innocenti grida vendetta al cielo …». Dopo questa predica il vescovo Grigorij viene arrestato e imprigionato dai tedeschi. Viene liberato dopo breve tempo, grazie all’intervento del vicario diocesano, il vescovo Ivan Latyševskij.
I comunisti sovietici arrestano il vescovo Grigorij per due volte. La prima nel 1939, ma dopo un’accurata perquisizione della sua abitazione lo rimandano a casa. Il secondo arresto avviene il 15 aprile 1945, quando il potere sovietico arresta quasi contemporaneamente tutti i vescovi greco-cattolici ucraini. Alle 23 un gruppo di soldati sovietici irrompe nell’abitazione del vescovo, che viene picchiato, preso a calci, trascinato per le scale, caricato come un sacco su un’automobile, perché non è più in grado di stare in piedi, e portato alla sede dell’NKVD, la polizia politica. In seguito viene trasferito a Kiev, nella famigerata prigione della Luk’janovka, dove si svolgono gli interrogatori. Nei sette mesi prima di morire il vescovo Grigorij deve subire 36 interrogatori, ognuno dei quali può durare dalle 2 alle 37 ore senza interruzione. Di questi 36 interrogatori sono rimasti i verbali, che in tutto riempiono un dossier di 390 pagine. Gli interrogatori si svolgono in un’atmosfera di terrore fisico e psicologico. Le percosse sono di prammatica.
Dopo l’undicesimo interrogatorio si formula l’accusa: Chomyšin, «mentre era vescovo greco-cattolico delle provincie di Stanislavov e di Ternopol’, dal momento in cui si è instaurato il potere sovietico ha svolto un’attiva propaganda antisovietica, ha protestato contro il potere e la politica sovietica; come agente del Vaticano, ha compiuto tentativi concreti per staccare il popolo ucraino dal popolo sovietico, ha fatto di tutto per diffondere la fede cattolica in territorio sovietico. … Dopo la liberazione dell’Ucraina Occidentale dall’occupazione tedesca, ha continuato a svolgere attività antisovietica, segue la linea dura per rafforzare la chiesa greco-cattolica uniate e diffonderne l’influsso all’Est».
Il 21 dicembre 1945 il vescovo viene trasportato in condizioni disperate dalla prigione interna dell’NKVD all’infermeria della prigione della Luk’janovka a Kiev. Muore dopo una settimana, il 28 dicembre 1945. Non si conosce il luogo della sepoltura: si pensa al cimitero della prigione della Luk’janovka, o alle fosse comuni di Bikivnja, una località alla periferia di Kiev, dove riposano decine di migliaia di vittime del regime staliniano.
Il vescovo Grigorij Chomyšin viene beatificato il 27 giugno 2001 in occasione
della visita di papa Giovanni Paolo II in Ucraina.
Fonte : www.russiacristiana.org
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/90656
Martiri Greco-Cattolici
Ucraini
(†1959)
Beatificazione:
- 27 giugno 2001
- Papa Giovanni
Paolo II
Memoria Liturgica:
- 2 aprile
Mykola Čarneckyj
(1884-1959), Vescovo di Lviv, che svolse il suo ministero di esarca
apostolico di Volyn’ e Pidljashja in tempo di persecuzione contro la fede e,
seguendo come pastore fedele le orme di Cristo, per sua grazia raggiunse il
regno celeste; e 24 compagni, martiri
Nessuno ha un amore più
grande di questo: dare la vita per i propri amici (Gv 15,13)
Mykola Čarneckyj, nacque
il 14 dicembre 1884 in Semakivtsi (Ucraina Occidentale). Nel 1903 entrò nel
Seminario di Stanislaviv. Negli anni 1903-1910 fu alunno del Collegio Ucraino a
Roma, coronando gli studi con il dottorato in teologia. Ordinato sacerdote nel
1909, insegnò nel seminario di Stanislaviv, dove era anche padre spirituale.
Nel 1919 entrò nella
Congregazione dei Missionari Redentoristi. Nel 1926 fu nominato Visitatore
Apostolico per i greco-cattolici in Volyn, dove le strutture della Chiesa
greco-cattolica furono distrutte dal regime zarista nel XIX secolo. Nel 1931 fu
nominato Ordinario dei cattolici di rito bizantino-slavo in Polonia e fu
ordinato Vescovo l'8 febbraio 1931 a Roma.
Fu arrestato l'11 aprile
a Lviv dagli agenti del KGB, insieme a tutti i Vescovi greco-cattolici.
Condannato inizialmente a cinque anni di lavori forzati, passò undici anni
nelle carceri. Subì continue torture ed umiliazioni. Accettava tutto questo e
sopportava con eroica pazienza e serenità, pregando per i persecutori e
confortando i suoi compagni di lager, per i quali era veramente un buon
pastore. Nel 1956 fu scarcerato e riportato a Lviv ormai moribondo. Ripresosi
continuò il suo ministero vescovile a Lviv: dal suo letto dirigeva la Chiesa
nelle catacombe.
Il Servo di Dio morì a
Lviv il 2 aprile 1959. Sin dall'inizio fu ritenuto dai fedeli ucraini un santo
vescovo e un martire della fede cattolica. Ogni giorno molti fedeli pregano
sulla sua tomba.
SOURCE : https://www.causesanti.va/it/santi-e-beati/mykola-carneckyj-e-24-compagni.html
I COMPAGNI
La schiera dei 24 Servi e
Serve di Dio, martiri della Chiesa greco-cattolica ucraina durante la II guerra
mondiale, eroici testimoni della fedeltà a Dio in un epoca di persecuzione per
la fede da parte del comunismo, si compone di 7 Vescovi, 6 sacerdoti diocesani,
7 sacerdoti regolari, 3 suore e un laico:
Ecco l’elenco completo
dei 25 martiri greco-cattolici ucraini beatificatida Giovanni Paolo II nel
2001, con i relativi collegamenti allesingole schede loro dedicate:
Mykolay Charneckyj, Vescovo, 2 aprile
Hryhorij Khomysyn, Vescovo, 28 dicembre
Josafat Kocylovskyj, Vescovo, 17 novembre
Symeon Lukac, Vescovo, 22 agosto
Vasyl Velyckovskyj, Vescovo, 30 giugno
Ivan Slezyuk, Vescovo, 2 dicembre
Mykyta Budka, Vescovo, 28 settembre
Hryhorij Lakota, Vescovo, 5 novembre
Leonid Fedorov, Sacerdote, 7 marzo
Mykola Konrad, Sacerdote, 26 giugno
Andrij Iscak, Sacerdote, 26 giugno
Roman Lysko, Sacerdote, 14 ottobre
Mykola Cehelskyj, Sacerdote, 25 maggio
Petro Verhun, Sacerdote, 7 febbraio
Oleksa Zaryckyj, Sacerdote, 30 ottobre
Klymentij Septyckyj, Sacerdote, 1 maggio
Severijan Baranyk, Sacerdote, 28 giugno
Jakym Senkivskyj, Sacerdote, 28 giugno
Zynovij Kovalyk, Sacerdote, 30 giugno
Vitalij Volodymyr Bajrak, Sacerdote, 16 maggio
Ivan Ziatyk, Sacerdote, 17 maggio
Tarsykia (Olha) Mackiv, Suora, 18 luglio
Olympia (Olha) Bidà, Suora, 28 gennaio
Laurentia (Leukadia) Harasymiv, Suora, 26 agosto
Volodymyr Pryjma, Laico, 26 giugno
SOURCE : https://www.causesanti.va/it/santi-e-beati/mykola-carneckyj-e-24-compagni.html
Den salige Gregor
Khomysyn (1867-1947)
Minnedag:
2. april
Den salige Gregor
Khomysyn [Khomyshyn] (Hryhorij, Hryhory) ble født den 25. mars 1867 i landsbyen
Hadynkivtsi i oblast (distriktet) Ternopil i Ukraina. Han tilhørte den gresk-katolske
«unerte» Kirken i landet. Etter sin utdannelse på seminaret i Lviv ble han
presteviet den 18. november 1893, og deretter studerte han videre i Wien mellom
1894 og 1899 og tok en doktorgrad. I 1902 ble Gregor utnevnt til rektor for
seminaret i Lviv av metropolitt Andreas Septyckyj [Sheptytsky] (Andrij), som
ledet den ukrainsk-katolske Kirke fra 1901 til sin død i 1944.
I 1904 ble Gregor utnevnt
til biskop av Stanislaviv (siden 1962 Ivano-Frankivsk) og bispeviet i
katedralen St. Georg. I 1939 ble han arrestert for første gang av NKVD
(forløperen til KGB). I april 1945 viet han den salige Johannes Slezyuk til
sin koadjutor-biskop med etterfølgelsesrett i tilfelle bolsjevikene kom til å
arrestere eller drepe ham selv. Han ble arrestert for andre gang i april 1945
og deportert til fengslet Lukianivska i hovedstaden Kyjiv. Kort etter, den 2.
juni 1945, ble biskop Johannes også arrestert og dømt til ti års deportasjon
til en arbeidsleir i Russland.
Gregor døde den 17.
januar 1947 på sykestuen i NKVDs fengsel i Kyjiv. Han var blitt torturert ved å
bli slått halvt i hjel med bøker han selv hadde skrevet. Den 24. april 2001 ble
dekretet som anerkjente hans og andre ukraineres martyrium (gruppen den
salige Nikolas
Carneckyj og hans 24 ledsagere) promulgert i Vatikanet av
Helligkåringskongregasjonen i nærvær av pave Johannes Paul II (1978-2005).
Dermed fikk de tittelen Venerabilis, «Ærverdige», og veien til saligkåring
var åpnet. Gruppen består av åtte biskoper, seks sekularprester, syv
ordensprester, tre ordenssøstre og en legmann.
De ble saligkåret den 27.
juni 2001 av pave Johannes Paul II under hans besøk i Ukraina. Deres minnedag
er 2. april, Nikolas Carneckyjs dødsdag. Samtidig ble to andre gresk-katolske
ukrainere, en rutensk biskop og to latinske katolikker også saligkåret.
Kilder: Patron
Saints SQPN, papalvisit.org.ua, vatican.va, EWTN/OR - Kompilasjon og
oversettelse: p. Per
Einar Odden - Sist oppdatert: 2005-07-04 23:32
SOURCE : https://www.katolsk.no/biografier/historisk/gkhomysh
~ Martyrs Killed in
odium fidei under Communist Regimes ~ in Eastern Europe [3] : http://newsaints.faithweb.com/martyrs/East01.htm
