✠✠✠✠✠
Vitaliy Bayrak (Alternative Spellings: Vitalii Bairak, Vitalij Bajrak, Born: Volodomyr Bayrak) was a Ukrainian Catholic priest and martyr. He was born on February 24, 1907, in Shvaikivtsi within the Ternopil Region of Ukraine, Russian Empire. In 1924, he entered the Basilian monastery and would later be ordained a priest on August 13, 1933. He was appointed superior at the Drohobych monastery in place of Joachim Senkivskyi. Throughout his life, he was considered to be a very active and friendly missionary, who possessed a great gift for giving spiritual direction. He was arrested for his faith on 17 September 1945 by the NKVD. On 13 November 1945 his property was confiscated, and he was sentenced to eight years in a forced labour camp. On Easter 1946, he died a martyr for the faith after beeing beaten to death in the Drohobych prison.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Comments are subject to deletion if they are not germane. I have no problem with a bit of colourful language, but blasphemy or depraved profanity will not be allowed. Attacks on the Catholic Faith will not be tolerated. Comments will be deleted that are republican (Yanks! Note the lower case 'r'!), attacks on the legitimacy of Pope Francis as the Vicar of Christ (I know he's a material heretic and a Protector of Perverts, and I definitely want him gone yesterday! However, he is Pope, and I pray for him every day.), the legitimacy of the House of Windsor or of the claims of the Elder Line of the House of France, or attacks on the legitimacy of any of the currently ruling Houses of Europe.