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Saints of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Dr. Alexander Roman (email)
Other Ukrainian Saints
Ukrainian Servants of Christ and His Church
Other Ukrainian Saints include: St Abramius of Rostov and his associate St Ignatius the Bishop of Smolensk; St. Dmytry of Priluki; St. Nikita Pereyaslavsky, who became a Saint while living on a pillar, as did St. Cyril of Turiv; St. Paul the Ukrainian Confessor under the Turks. Blessed Martin of Turiv was a very humble Ukrainian Saint in the Turiv region who served many Turiv Hierarchs.
St Cyril, Bishop of Rostov, administered the Rostov diocese, when it was still part of Kyivan Rus’-Ukraine, from 1231-1262. A former Hegumen of the Volodymyr-Nativity Monastery, Cyril was very learned and a great orator. To hear Cyril preach, people came not only from Rostov, but from all surrounding cities and from the entire region! Under the influence of Cyril’s preaching, Prince Peter of Ordynsk received Christianity and was baptized. Some of St Cyril’s writings that have survived to this day include: “About the Fear of God,” “About the Heavenly Powers,” “About Publicans” and others. His feast day is May 21st (Jul. Cal.).
The Holy Hieromartyr Athanasius Filipovich, Ihumen of Brest who defended the Ukrainian Orthodox Church against the Union of Brest-Litovsk for which he was tortured by the Poles, forced to dig his own grave, shot in the head and buried alive. His modern descendant, Bishop Leonty Filipovich of Chile, is a candidate for Glorification as a saint as well. Blessed George Konissky, Archbishop of Belarus was a Ukrainian Hierarch who was a strong defender of Orthodoxy in the eighteenth century. St. Gabriel, a Child-Martyr. Saint Parthenius, Patriarch of Constantinople died in Ukraine as did St. Athanasius “the Sitting” Patriarch who was buried as patron of Poltava in the sitting position.
St. Job of the Pochayiv Lavra is a Miracle-Worker who also participated in the miraculous preservation of the Lavra from the Turkish forces. In addition to His Shrine, there are two miraculous Icons of the Pochayiv Mother of God and Her Miraculous Foot-Print on the Rock of Pochayiv. Devotion to the Foot-Print asks the Mother of God to be the Guide of all our foot-steps in life.
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