“I will receive death gladly if such be God’s will, but I shall never compromise my conscience as a preacher”.
Blessed Zynoviy Kovalyk
Saint of the Day Quote: Blessed Zynoviy Kovalyk
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Ukarainan priest. An extremely gifted preacher he was accused as a spy, arrested on 20 December 1940 by the Soviets, because of his homily on the Feast of the Immaculate Conceptionand. While imprisioned he was tortured by the Soviets. “On 22 June 1941, German troops began their offensive against the Soviet Union and the city of Lviv fell seven days later. As the German army advanced, the Soviets guards executed 7,000 prisoners prior to retreat. Witnesses claim that, rather than simply shooting Kovalyk, he was crucified on a corridor wall of the prison, his stomach ripped open and a dead human foetus inserted. Official Soviet statements claim that Kovalyk was shot and not crucified.”
I hope Blessed Kovalyk ifrom heaven is intercessing for his Ukrainian countrymen.