SAINT
saint-klymentiy-sheptytsky
A saint of the Catholic Church
biography
Klymentiy Sheptytsky, MSU, also known as Klymentiy of Univ, was a Ukrainian Catholic prelate who served as archimandrite of the Studite Monks in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and as Russian Catholic Apostolic Exarch of Great Russia and Siberia. Sheptytsky was arrested and died a political prisoner of the Soviet Union in the Vladimir Central Prison in Russia. He was beatified in 2001 and named Righteous Among the Nations by the State of Israel for saving Jewish lives during the Holocaust in Ukraine.
feast Day
05-01
birth Date
17 November 1869
death Date
1951-05-01
canonization Status
beatified
feast Month
5
feast Day Of Month
1

