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Does anyone have a resource of the lives of these saints?

Synaxis of the Saints of the Saints of the Carpatho-Rus [comeandseeicons.com]

Two Sundays after Holy Pentecost
Troparion (Tone 8)
As a beautiful fruit of the sowing of Your salvation, the land of Carpatho-Rus offers to You, O Lord, all the saints that have shone in it. By their prayers, keep the church and our homeland in deep peace, through the Mother of God, O Most Merciful One.

Holy Father & Confessor Alexis of Hust
Holy Martyr Ludmilla
Holy Martyr Maxim of Gorlice
Holy Father & Confessor Alexis of Wilkes-Barre
St. Rostislavy Prince of Moravia
St. Ephrem of New Torzhok
Holy Martyr Wenceslaus
St. Procopius Abbot of Sazava
St. Moses the Hungarian
Holy Hieromartyr Gorazd of Prague
St. Cyril Equal to the Apostles
St. Methodius Equal to the Apostles

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Here is some info.

Rusyn info [roamingrusyn.blogspot.com]

I remember Saint Gorazd because he was commemorated on 4th of September in my Synaxarion. He and about 800,000 Czechs left the Roman Catholic Church for Orthodoxy. In WWII, when members of the resistance killed the Nazi commander in Prague, he sheltered them in his cathedral and took responsibility, earning himself martyrdom. There's more about him here:

http://orthodoxwiki.org/Gorazd_(Pavlik)_of_Prague

This is from Roaming Rusyn:

Holy Father & Confessor Alexis of Khust (Hust) – Our venerable and God-bearing Father Alexis Kabaliuk, Apostle of Carpatho-Russia (August 30, 1877 – December 2, 1947), was a leader of the Carpathian Orthodox in the early 20th century. His feast days are celebrated on October 21 and December 2. There is an akathist written for him.

Alexander Ivanovich Kabaliuk was born into a Greek Catholic (Uniate) family but converted to Orthodoxy as a young man. He became an archimandrite and played a major role in reviving Orthodoxy in Transcarpathia in the early 20th century, and his missionary activities were persecuted by the Austrian-Hungarian authorities, who suspected Orthodox believers of pro-Russian sympathies. On the eve of World War I, Kabalyuk was sentenced to jail, and following his release he was one of the leaders of the Carpathian Orthodox until his death in 1947. He is considered an Orthodox hero and was glorified in 2001 by the Church of Ukraine (Moscow Patriarchate) as the first Subcarpathian Russian Orthodox saint.

His relics are at the St. Nicolas monastery in the village of Iza in the Ukraine.

I do not understand the inclusion of all the non-Rusyns that have nothing to do with the Rusyn people or traditional lands. The only Rusyns are SS. Alexis of Khust, Alexis of Wilkes-Barre, and Maxim of Gorlice. SS Cyril and Methodius I can understand and St. Rostislav as he sent for them. Why not include SS. Vladimir and Olga, or SS. Boris and Gleb, or any other Ukrainians or Belarusians saints who are as tenously connected to the Rusyns as SS. Wenceslaus and Ludmilla and St. Procopius?

I tend to concur with Deacon Lance about the inclusion of Ss. Wenceslaus, Ludmila and Procopius--this makes sense within the autocephalous Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, but not so much in the Rusyn diaspora.

That being said, there are a few other saints who can also be included within this Synaxis:

The newly-glorified St. Job (Kundrja)
St. Dositej (Vasić), who served as bishop of Mukachevo-Presov before being transferred to Zagreb
St. Joseph (Stojka) of Maramaros, one of the last Orthodox hierarchs after the Union of Uzhorod

St. Stephen of Hungary could also be included, as Karpatska Rus' was actually part of his kingdom. While this may not be well-received in some circles, and could even have political implications, his cultus was recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarch several years ago.

There is also Pachomius of the Hrushev Monastery (14th century), but I still can't figure out if he's canonized or not.

I know this doesn't answer the original question...

Dave

Okay, I am going out on a limb here, but there are also a large number of heroic Catholic Saints from Carpatho-Rus. Blessed Theodore Romzha, Eparch of Muchachevo and Martyr under the Bolshevik yoke, springs immediately to mind.
In the Mother of God,
latimasstrad

Actually, Metropolitan Nicholas of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese in the USA added officially Blessed Theodore Romzha and Blessed Pavel Godjic to the Synaxis of Carpath-Rusyn saints.

The following quote is from the July 2006 issue of ONE magazine [cnewa.org]:

Do you have any information on this saint?

Here is an article prepared by Fr. Ed Pehanich.

http://acrod.org/readingroom/saints/st-job

The name of the village should actually read "Uglja" or "Uhlja" and not "Ugolka."

Fr. David