09 March 2021

Eastern Rite - Blessed Vasile (Aftenie)

Today is the Feast of the Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste:

Cyrion (or Quirio), Candidus, Domnus, Hesychius, Heraclius, Smaragdus, Eunoicus, Valens, Vivianus, Claudius, Priscus, Theodulus, Eutychius, John, Xanthias, Helianus, Sisinius, Angus, Aetius, Flavius, Acacius, Ecdicius, Lysimachus, Alexander, Elias, Gorgonius, Theophilus, Dometian, Gaius, Leontius, Athanasius, Cyril, Sacerdon, Nicholas, Valerius, Philoctimon, Severian, Chudion, Aglaius, and Meliton.
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Bld Vasile (Aftenie) (14 June 1899 – 10 May 1950) was a Romanian Auxiliary Bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church, titular Bishop of Ulpiana, and a Martyr of the Faith. 

He was beaten till his death in the communist regime's jails for refusing to abandon his Greek-Catholic faith and the United Romanian Church. Pope Francis personally presided over his beatification on 2 June 2019.

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