Życie, działalność apostolska i biskupia posługa bł. Mikołaja Czarneckiego CSsR (1884–1959)
The life and ministry of blessed bishop Mykolay Charnetskyy, C.Ss.R. (1884–1959)
Author(s): Olga PushchakContributor(s): Anna Okis (Translator)
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History, Modern Age, Recent History (1900 till today), Theology and Religion, 19th Century
Published by: Warszawska Prowincja Redemptorystów
Keywords: Mykolay Charnetskyy; redemptorists; Lviv Vice-Province; Greek-catholic Church in Volyn; liquidation of Greek-catholic Church in Ukraine
Summary/Abstract: The article examines life and mission of the bishop Mykolay Charnetskyy,a Ukrainian Redemptorist, who was proclaimed a blessed martyr along withother 26 blessed ecclesiastic and lay people by John Paul II in June 2001. Theauthor presents Charnetskyy’s early childhood, his school years, studying atthe Seminary, higher education and work as a professor of the Seminary inStanyslaviv. The decision to join the Congregation of Redemptorists was thenext big step in his life. Charnetskyy performed various tasks as a confrere.He served as a teacher, a confessor, a missionary and a housekeeper in a fewhouses of the Lviv Province. Special attention in the article is paid to his ministryin Volyn region as a missionary and an apostolic visitator. The articledeals with special features of spiritual life in Volyn and the interconfessionalconflict between Poles and Ukrainians. Charnetskyy’s mission was deterreddue to the political situation in the region and the War. Mykolay Charnetskyybecame a martyr of the Soviet Regime who was unjustly accused of beinga “spy of Vatican”. His relics have been transferred to the Church of St. Josaphatin Lviv.
Journal: Studia Redemptorystowskie
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 13
- Page Range: 337-356
- Page Count: 20
- Language: Polish