Sunday, December 22, 2019

BLESSED VOLODYMYR PRYJMA

Bl. Volodymyr Pryjma


Feast day: April 2
Birth: 1906
Death: 1941
Beatified: Pope John Paul II

Bl. Volodymyr Pryjma was born on 17 July 1906 in the village of Stradch, Yavoriv District. After graduating from a school for cantors, which was under the care of Metropolitan Sheptytsky, he became the cantor and choir director in the village church of Stradch. On 26 June 1941 agents of the NKVD mercilessly tortured and murdered him along with Fr Nicholas Conrad, in the forest near their village as they were returning from the home of a sick woman, who had requested the sacrament of reconciliation.

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