Liturgy of the Hours

November 12

Saint Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr

Memorial

St. Josephat was a Ukrainian archbishop in the 16th century. He was educated in Lithuania and became a monk at the Trinity of Vilna, a Basilian monastery. Throughout his career, he supported a union of the Rutheran churches with Rome, but was murdered by an opponent to the union. He is remembered as being distinguished and zealous and was canonized in 1867 by Pius IX. [1][2]

Written by Sarah Ciotti
[1] Catholicpedia: The Original Catholic Encyclopedia (1917) for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. s.v. “St. Josaphat Kuncevyc.”
[2] Fr. Hugh Feiss, OSB, The Martyrology of the Monastery of the Ascension, 2008.

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