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Blessed Vasyl Vsevolod Velychkovskyi

Also known as: Basil Velychkovsky; Vasyl Velyckovskyj; Vasyl Velychkovsky

Blessed
Post-Congregation

Feast Day

30 June; 27 June as one of the Martyrs Killed Under Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe

Born

1 June 1903 in Stanislaviv, Ukraine

Died

30 June 1973 at Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada of natural causes; buried in Winnepeg; relics now enshrined in Saint Joseph’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Winnipeg

Beatified

27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II in Ukraine

Venerated

24 April 2001 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)

Biography

Blessed Vasyl Vsevolod Velychkovskyi, also known as Basil Velychkovsky, Vasyl Velyckovskyj, or Vasyl Velychkovsky, was born on 1 June 1903 in the city of Stanislaviv, Ukraine. He was the son of devout Greek Catholic catechists, Volodymyr and Anne Theodorowych Velychkovsky.

Cause for Canonization

Beatified
Beatified2001-06-27 by 27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II in Ukraine

Feast Days

June 30June 27

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