deaths
June 30, 1973
Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop and martyr (born 1903)
Vasyl Velychkovsky
Vasyl Vsevolod Velychkovsky, CSsR was a Ukrainian religious priest of the Redemptorists and a prelate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He is considered a martyr in the Catholic Church, due to his death in 1973 of injuries sustained while imprisoned by the Soviet Union for his faith. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2001.