Vasyl Velychkovsky
Ukrainian Greek-Catholic bishop and martyr (1903–1973)
Feast: 30 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Vasyl Vsevolod Velychkovsky, CSsR (Ukrainian: Василь Володимирович Величковський; June 1, 1903 – June 30, 1973) was a Ukrainian religious priest of the Redemptorists and a prelate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He is considered a martyr in the Catholic Church, due to his death in 1973 of injuries sustained while imprisoned by the Soviet Union for his faith. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2001.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q48682 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Vasyl Velychkovsky (CC BY-SA)
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