Vitaliy Bayrak
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Vitaliy Bayrak | |
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| Born | February 24, 1907 Szwajkowce, Austrian Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Shvaikivtsi, Ukraine) |
| Died | April 21, 1946 (aged 39) Drogobych prison, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Drohobych, Ukraine) |
| Cause of death | prisoner abuse |
Vitaliy Bayrak (Ukrainian: Віталій Байрак), sometimes referred to as Volodomyr Bayrak (Ukrainian: Володоир Байрак; February 24, 1907 – April 21, 1946),[1] was a Ukrainian Catholic priest and martyr.
Born in Szajkowce in Austrian Galicia (now Shvaikivtsi, near Ternopil in modern-day Ukraine), he entered a Basilian monastery in 1924 and was ordained a priest on August 13, 1933. He was appointed superior at the Drohobych monastery on in place of Yakym Senkivskyi. [1] Throughout his life, he was considered to be a very active and friendly missionary, who possessed a great gift for giving spiritual direction.
On September 17, 1945, Bayrak was arrested and, on November 13, was sentenced to imprisonment for confiscating property, even though he had none. On Easter 1946, he died a martyr for the faith after having beaten in the Drohobych prison.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Glorious Ukrainian Martyrs, Victims of Communist Barbarity - RISU".
- ^ Turiĭ, Oleh, ed. (2004). Church of the Martyrs: The New Saints of Ukraine. Lviv, Ukraine: St. John's Monastery, Pub. Division Svichado. p. 23. ISBN 966-561-345-6. OCLC 55854194.
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- 1907 births
- 1946 deaths
- 20th-century Ukrainian people
- Clergy from Ternopil Oblast
- Ukrainian Austro-Hungarians
- Ukrainian people who died in Soviet detention
- Ukrainian Eastern Catholic priests
- Order of Saint Basil the Great
- Ukrainian anti-communists
- 20th-century Eastern Catholic martyrs
- Ukrainian beatified people
- Eastern Catholic beatified people