St Josaphat
St. & martyr Josaphat Kuntsevych was a monk & archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, who was killed at Vitebsk on 12 November 1623. He restored the churches: he issued a catechism to the clergy, with instructions that it should be learned by heart; composed rules for the priestly life... The masses attacked & broke into the room where he was, hit him on the head with a stick, another split it with an axe,& when Kuntsevych fell... They dragged his dead body naked through the…
