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Omelyan Kovch
Ukrainian beatified priest and Righteous Among the Nations (1884-1944)
SaintPost-1588
Feast: 25 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1884
Died
1944
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
Omelyan Hryhorovych Kovch (Ukrainian: Омелян Григорович Ковч; August 20, 1884, Kosmach — March 25, 1944) was a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest murdered in Majdanek concentration camp.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Sergius and Bacchus Saint“Sergius and Bacchus College in Rome.” — Wikipedia
Sources
- Wikidata Q557861 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Omelyan Kovch (CC BY-SA)
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