SAINT
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A saint of the Catholic Church
biography
Josaphat Kuntsevych, OSBM was a Basilian hieromonk and archeparch of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Polotsk from 1618 to 1623. On 12 November 1623, he was beaten to death with an axe during an anti-Catholic riot by Eastern Orthodox Belarusians in Vitebsk, in the eastern peripheries of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
feast Day
11-12
patronages
- Ukraine The St Leonards academy
birth Date
1580
death Date
1623-11-12
canonization Status
canonized
canonization Date
June 29, 1867
canonized By
Pope Pius IX
feast Month
11
feast Day Of Month
12

