Tarsykija Mazkiv

Tarsykija Mazkiv

Tarsykija Mazkiw ( Ukrainian Тарсикія Мацьків * 23. March 1919 in Chodorow , today Ukraine as Olha Mazkiw ( Ольга Мацьків ); † July 17th or 18th July 1944 in Krystonopil today Chervonohrad in Ukraine) was a nun of the Association of Servants of Mary the Immaculate . She is one of the twenty-five blessed of the Greek Catholic Church of the Ukrainians .

Life

Olha Mazkiw was the oldest of four children from a pious working class family. Already in her childhood she showed an interest in a religious life.

On May 3, 1938, she entered the religious community of the Servants of Mary the Immaculate. On November 5, 1940, she took her religious vows and took her religious name Tarsykija . On the morning of July 17, 1944, other sources speak of July 18, she was shot dead by a Soviet soldier in her monastery in Krystonopil.

She was buried in the monastery garden at the foot of the local statue of the Virgin Mary. In 1956, her remains were taken to the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv . On June 27, 2001, she was proclaimed by Pope John Paul II in a Byzantine-Slavic liturgy in Lviv as a martyr and blessed of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church . On September 2, 2007, her remains were transferred to the Cathedral of the Stryj Eparchy, to which her place of birth has belonged since 2000.

literature

• Lubomyra Nadych, Dominica Slawuta: She followed the call: the life of Blessed Tarsykia Olha Matskiv, Sister Servant of Mary Immaculate, martyr (1919-1944). ( Блаженна Тарсикія: Мучениця за віру ) Toronto 2007, ISBN 978-0-9681316-2-6 .

Web links

• Entry on the website of the Community of Servants of Mary the Immaculate
• Entry on the twenty-five blessed of the Greek Catholic Church of Ukrainians on the Vatican website
• Entry in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints