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He was a kickboxing athlete and world champion in the national team of Ukraine and was posthumously awarded as Hero of Ukraine. [19] [20] On 1 April, Yuriy Ruf, a poet, was killed while fighting Russian forces in Luhansk. [21] On 7 April, Oleksii Yanin, former world kick-boxing champion, was killed in battle in Mariupol. [22]
Jan Beyzym, SJ (15 May 1850 – 2 October 1912) was a Polish Catholic priest and a professed member of the Jesuits. [1] [2] He served as an educator in Jesuit boarding schools for a while after his ordination though later left Poland to work alongside lepers in Madagascar where he remained until his death.
On 4 June 1946 the Soviet government expelled the Jesuits from Ukraine. The Lviv Jesuits left also, taking with them the crowned icon of Holy Mother. The church next saw use as a warehouse. The church roof, destroyed in the war, was temporarily fixed. In 1959, the roof was renovated under the supervision of architect Ihor Starosolskyi.
Ukraine also tended to be quieter about its own military fatalities. [105] According to BBC News, Ukrainian claims of Russian fatalities included the injured as well. [106] [107] [108] Western countries emphasized the Russian military's toll, while Russian news outlets have largely stopped reporting on the Russian death toll. [109]
Walter Joseph Ciszek, S.J. (November 4, 1904 – December 8, 1984) was a Polish-American Jesuit priest of the Russian Greek Catholic Church who clandestinely conducted missionary work in the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1963.
Konrad was born on 16 May 1876 in the village of Strusów, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (modern-day Strusiv, Ukraine). [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 ...
A famous priest-artist who was thrown out of the Jesuits after being accused of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse of women has been accepted into a diocese in his native Slovenia, the ...
Jesuit priests at the time of their solemn and final profession in the Society of Jesus promise to "never strive or ambition, not even indirectly, to be chosen or promoted to any prelacy or dignity in or outside the Society; and I will do my best never to consent to my election unless I am forced to do so by obedience to him who can order me under penalty of sin."