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:rolleyes: GLORY TO JESUS CHRIST! GLORY TO HIM FOREVER! Peter wrote: "...Albertyn and some other parishes on Bielarussian ethnic territories under Polish rule did existed indeed..." Peter, does the Greek Catholic community in Albertyn still exist? There was an American Jesuit priest, Fr. Walter Cizyek (sp) who was assigned to Albertyn in 1939 just before the World War II started. He talks about the Soviet occupation of Albertyn and his treatment at the hands of the Red Army. He and some of his Jesuit companions joined a "shipment" of people from Eastern Poland went to Russia to "work". He was arrested and imprioned in the Lubiank in Moscow and then deported to Siberia where he spent nearly 15 years in various mines and labor camps before being pardoned. He was "exchanged" for a Soviet spy in the early 1960's and returned to America. He wrote 2 books about his experiences, one being "WITH GOD IN RUSSIA". The name of the second escapes me at this time. There is a movement here in America to have him cannonized. It would be interesting to know if the people of Albertyn are still alive and if they remember Fr. Walter. S'Bohom! the least servant of the servants of God... mark 
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Originally posted by Medved:
He wrote 2 books about his experiences, one being "WITH GOD IN RUSSIA". The name of the second escapes me at this time. is the name of the other book by Father Ciszek, and I hope to read it during Lent. Looks good.
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Glory to God for all things!
Medved,
One of the strengths of Dormition parish at Albertyn was that over time the Jesuits became interested in reviving the "Holy Union" of Brest among the local Belarusian population. The Jesuit fathers actually preached their sermons in Belarusian! They promoted the cult of the Miraculous Icon of Zhyrovitsi. The parish attracted Jesuits of the Belarusian Greek Catholic Church like Fr. Anthony Niemantsevich.
The Polish authorities, civil and religious, were much opposed to this. "Converting" Orthodox Slavs to Eastern-rite Catholicism was just the first step in Polonizing them. These Jesuits, with the support of Mtr. Andrew Sheptitsky, hoped, contrary to the Polish bishops and Jesuits, to restore the Belarusian Greek Catholic Church. This happened in 1939 after the demise of Catholic Poland at the hands of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Mtr. Andrew canonically erected the Belarusian Greek Catholic Exarchate and appointed Fr. Anthony as the exarch. Some believe that he was secretly consecrated as a bishop. He was martyred by the Nazis in 1942 or 1943.
After his release from the gulags Fr. Walter did receive a letter from one of his Belarusian parishoners. This letter is mentioned in "With God in Russia." After the fall of Soviet power the local Belarusian Greek Catholics erected a cross on the site of their now-destroyed, beloved Belarusian Greek Catholic parish.
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Holy Russian Orthodox-Catholic martyrs and confessors, pray to God for us.
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Dear Alex,
I think it is best to see blessed Martyrs of Pratulin as heros of religius freedom than to quarrel about their ethnical background and who is entiteld to show them veneration. So I called pastor at latin parish in Pratulin and he said me that any byzantine catholic priest is allowed and also invited to celebrate divine litugy in his church. So you from overseas can arrange pilgrimage to Poland and venerate blessed Martyrs at the place of theirs martyrdom according to your liturgical tradition.
Anyway judging the situation you shoud remember some facts. Eastern catholics considerd by authorities as orthodox after Unia was liquidated, were forbidden to receive sacraments from catholic priests no matter what rite (although latin rite was still legal). Since they did not want to accept sacraments from orthodox clergy they had to travel across the border to the parts of Poland then under Austrian rule, especially to marry in a church. Since, as Peter wrote, russian authorities suppressed Kholm eparchy with the help of some clergy from Lviv metropolia, they considerd Ukrainian catholic priests as somehow untrustful and preferred to receive sacraments from polish and latin clergymen. This untrustfulness was mutual. Some priests from Kholm eparchy who escaped forced exil in Siberia taking refuge in Gallicia, served in latin parishes because Lviv metropolia was reluctant to accept them due to theirs heavilly latinized customs. And they really were. Before liqiudation of Kholm eparchy parish churches were often without iconostas but with communion rails, pews and pipe organs.
Well, Martyrs died with typicall latin crucifix in hands.
Holy Martyrs interced for peace between western and eastern churches!
Piotr C
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Dear Piotr,
Yes, you are right and thank you for your historical information.
You would be pleased to know that I have had a typical Latin crucifix for some time!
God bless you and His Holines Jan Pavel Drugi!!
Alex
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During the Holy Father's last visit to Poland, he visited the Basilian monastery in Warsaw and venerated relics of the Pratulin Martyrs. L'Osservatore Romano, the semi-official newspaper of the Vatican, published a picture of the Holy Father venerating the relics and also published the speech he gave at the monastery.
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Today is the 150th anniversary of the martyrdom of the Blessed Martyrs of Pratulin. Let us invoke their intercession for the end of the Russian invasion against Ukraine and for the UGCC which has been banned in the occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Holy Martyrs of Pratulin, pray unto God for us! ApostichaTone 8O thirteen most glorious martyrs,* you had a terrible death for nothing,* bravely standing in the defence of the holy faith,* clothed with heavenly glory, you are counted among the righteous,* with whom we glorify you. The just cried out, and the Lord heard them.O thirteen most glorious martyrs,* accepting the cup of patience,* you invoked the divine name, God Almighty,* who gave you strength to endure,* and graced you with glory and eternal light, O God-seers. Many are the trials of the just,* but out of them all, the Lord will save them.O thirteen invincible martyrs,* you voluntarily gave yourselves to death,* sanctifying your native land with your blood,* in which your descendants followed this path of martyrdom,* therefore, today, celebrating your memory, we ask you:* ask Christ for great mercy for our people. Tone 3, Glory…Let us come today and glorify our martyrs* who met their enemies without hatred,* who came with their ungodly intentions,* to persuade them to apostatize from their faith,* they gave up their lives for this,* and the Lord accepted their sacrifice,* so now crowned with a heavenly crown, pray for our souls. Now…O Virgin Mother, you conceived the Son of God without seed* by the will of the Father and the power of the Holy Spirit.* He was begotten by the Father, without a mother, from all eternity.* Yet for our sake, He was born of you in the flesh without a human father,* and you nursed Him as an infant with your milk.* Therefore, never cease to entreat Him to deliver our souls from affliction. Source. [ lit.royaldoors.net]
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