Mykola Konrad

Blessed Mykola Konrad (Ukrainian: Микола Конрад) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and martyr.

Konrad was born on 16 May 1876 in the village of Strusiv in Ternopil Region.[1] He studied philosophy and theology in Rome, where he defended his dissertation and received his doctorate.[2] He was ordained a priest in 1899.[3] He taught for a time in high schools in Berezhany and Terebovlya, before in 1930 he was asked by Metropolitan Andriy Sheptytsky to teach at the Lviv Theological Academy.[2] He was then appointed parish priest in the village of Stradch.[1]

On 26 June 1941 he was murdered along with Volodymyr Pryjma, in a forest near Stradch as they were returning from the house of a sick woman who had requested the sacrament of reconciliation.[1][2][3]

He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on June 27, 2001.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Biographies of twenty five Greek-Catholic Servants of God at the website of the Vatican
  2. 1 2 3 'Beatification of the Servants of God on June 27, 2001 at the website of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
  3. 1 2 Alan Butler, Paul Burns. Butler's lives of the saints. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005. p76


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