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Aleksy Zarycki
Ukrainian Catholic priest and martyr (1912–1963)
BlessedResearchedSecond Polish Republic
Feast: 30 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1912
Died
1963
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
In the town of Dolinka near Karaganda in Kazakhstan, Blessed Aleksy Zarycki, priest and martyr, who, deported under a regime hostile to God to a prison camp, won eternal life in the struggle for the faith.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 30 October as a priest who died a martyr in a prison camp in Kazakhstan.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 30 October (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q7269834 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Oleksiy Zaryckyy (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.