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Saints of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Dr. Alexander Roman (email)
Ukrainian Mission Outreach to East and West
Defenders of Holy Orthodoxy
The Holy Hieromartyr St Maksym Sandovich, shot by Austro-Hungarian forces for Orthodoxy, was recently glorified and he is the very first Lemko Saint of the Carpathians. St Maksym is venerated by both Orthodox and Greek Catholic Lemkos and many others.
A few years ago, St Alexis Toth of Wilkes-Barre in the U.S. was glorified a Saint. He was from the Trans-Carpathians and a Ukrainian from that Magyarized region. He was originally a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest and a member of the Basilian Order. He received Orthodoxy, however, and after arriving in the U.S., worked with many Ukrainian and other immigrants who wished to return to Orthodoxy from Greek Catholicism.
It was because he was a former Greek Catholic priest that he understood very well the sensitivities of the new converts and he helped ensure a smooth spiritual transition for them. For example, he would not try to separate the new converts from their devotions to the Rosary, Way of the Cross etc. These two newly-glorified Saints have a strong significance for all Orthodox Christians, especially those in countries where they must struggle against Western and other “missionaries” who try to pull the children of the Orthodox Catholic Church away from their Mother.
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