Klymentiy Sheptytsky
Ukrainian Catholic monk and political prisoner (1869–1951)
Feast: 1 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Klymentiy Sheptytsky, MSU (Polish: Klemens Szeptycki, Ukrainian: Климентій Шептицький; 17 November 1869 – 1 May 1951), also known as Klymentiy of Univ (Ukrainian: Климентій Унівський), was a Ukrainian Catholic prelate who served as archimandrite of the Studite Monks in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and as Russian Catholic Apostolic Exarch of Great Russia and Siberia. Sheptytsky was arrested and died a political prisoner of the Soviet Union in the Vladimir Central Prison in Russia. He was beatified in 2001 and named Righteous Among the Nations by the State of Israel for saving Jewish lives during the Holocaust in Ukraine.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Andrey Sheptytsky Saint Brother or sister
- Wikidata Q1977978 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Klymentiy Sheptytsky (CC BY-SA)
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