Bienheureux Nicolas Konrad, Vladimir Pryjma & André Iscak
Martyrs en Ukraine (✝ 1941)
Mykola Konrad (1876-1941) prêtre du diocèse de Lviv et Volodymyr Pryjma (1906-1941) laïc et prère de famille béatifiés le 27 juin 2001 en Ukraine par Jean-Paul II lors de son voyage apostolique.
Dans la région de Lvov en Ukraine, l'an 1941, les bienheureux martyrs Nicolas Konrad, prêtre, et Vladimir Pryjma, qui, sous l'occupation du régime nazi, furent tués dans la forêt de Birck près de la ville de Stradeh et le bienheureux André Iscak, prêtre, fusillé au village de Sykhiv.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/11859/Bienheureux-Nicolas-Konrad--Vladimir-Pryjma-%26-Andre-Iscak.html
André Iszczak ( prononcer Ichtchak ), naquit le 23 septembre 1887 à Nikolaïev-sur-le-Dniestr et étudia en Galicie orientale ( appartenant à l' Empire austro-hongrois ) près de Lemberg ( Lwow ) dans une région peuplée de Polonais et d' Ukrainiens ( Ruthènes ). Il fit ses études théologiques à Lwow, puis à Innsbruck dans la partie autrichienne de l' Empire.
Après son doctorat en 1914, il reçut l' ordination presbytérale dans le rite byzantin ou gréco-catholique, pour les Uniates ( c' est-à-dire les Ruthènes de confession catholique et de rite oriental identique à celui des Orthodoxes slaves ). Il exerça son ministère en Galicie orientale qui devint après la première guerre mondiale partie intégrante de la nouvelle Pologne ( et qui est aujourd'hui en Ukraine occidentale ).
Il devint prêtre de paroisse, et préfet au séminaire de Lwow. A partir de 1928 il enseigna le droit canon et la dogmatique à la faculté de théologie de Lwow.
Lorsque la région fut occupée par l' armée soviétique en septembre 1939, conformément aux accords Ribbentrop-Molotov, les Uniates furent interdits de culte.
Le bienheureux André Iszczak fut assassiné à Sychow ( Sykhov en russe, aujourd' hui Sykhiv ) le 26 juin 1941 par des soldats soviétiques qui battaient en retraite devant l' envahisseur allemand. L'armée allemande avait en effet envahi en juin 1941 la zone d' occupation soviétique en attaquant l' URSS.
Les commissaires politiques communistes firent jusqu'à la dernière minute des procès, aboutissant souvent à la mort, contre l'élite intellectuelle polonaise et ukrainienne, et parmi cette dernière l'élite religieuse gréco-catholique en premier lieu, dont Staline souhaitait la disparition totale. Celle-ci fut souvent accusée de collaborer avec l' ennemi allemand, prétexte tout trouvé pour son élimination.
Le bienheureux André Iszczak fut béatifié le 27 juin 2001 par Jean-Paul II avec d' autres martyrs de la seconde guerre mondiale d' origine ukrainienne.
NB : on retrouve souvent l' orthographe " iscak " pour transcrire de l' alphabet cyrillique le nom du bienheureux André Ichtchak. J' ai repris l' orthographe polonaise, ne disposant pas de clavier cyrillique.
Biographies of twenty five Greek-Catholic Servants of God
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Blessed Andrii Ischak
1 April 2010, 7:16 pm
Also known as
- Andrew Ishchak
- Andreas Iscak
- Andrij Ishcak
- Andriy Ishchak
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Greek Catholic. Studied at universities in Lviv, Ukraine, and Innsbruck, Austria. Doctor of theologyin 1914, receiving his degree from the University of Innsbruck. Ordained in 1914. Teacher at the Lviv Theological Academy in 1928. Pastor of the Archeparchy of Lviv for the Ukrainians at Sykhiv. Martyred by retreating Soviet soldiers who passed through his village.
Born
- 20 September 1887 at Mykolayiv, Lviv District, Ukraine
- 24 April 2001 by Pope John Paul II (declaration of martyrdom)
- 27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II in Ukraine
Professor and Pastor
Priest and martyr Father Andrii Ischak was born on September 20, 1887, in Mykolaiv, in the Lviv District. He finished his theological studies at the universities in Lviv and Innsbruck (Austria). In 1914 he received his Ph.D. in theology and was ordained. Beginning in 1928 he taught dogmatic theology and canon law at the Lviv Theological Academy.
He was able to combine his professorial duties with his pastoral work in the village of Sykhiv near Lviv, where he met his death. Even under the threat of great danger he did not leave his parishioners without spiritual guidance. He was faithful to the end. On June 26, 1941, he died a martyr for the faith at the hands of soldiers of the retreating Soviet army.
“As the war began, the priest was taken at Persenkivka, the neighbouring station. Sometime in the afternoon they took him, detained him until the evening, then they let him go. My dad, because they knew each other well, told him: ‘Father, when they let you go, I would advise you to hide for a few days.’ Because it was already clear that the Germans were coming and the Bolsheviks would be fleeing. ‘Hide yourself and we’ll survive.’ But the priest said: ‘Ivan, the shepherd doesn’t abandon his flock. And I can’t leave my parishioners and conceal myself.’ In two days the military came and took him from his home. It was overgrown there with bushes, some distance from the parish, maybe a half-kilometre. They brought him there and killed him. They shot him in the stomach, and it looked like they also stabbed him with a knife.”– From the testimony of Ivan Kulchytskyi.
The New Martyrs of the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church
Beato Andrea (Andrij) Iscak Sacerdote e martire
Mykolayiv, Ucraina, 23 settembre 1887 – Sykhiv, Ucraina, 26 giugno 1941
Il beato Andrea Iscak, al tempo del regime avverso a Dio fu ucciso per la fede di Cristo nel villaggio di Sykhiv, sempre presso Leopoli. Fu beatificato da Giovanni Paolo II il 27 giugno 2001.
Martirologio Romano: Nel villaggio di Sykhiv sempre nel territorio di Leopoli, beato Andrea Iščak, sacerdote e martire, che nello stesso periodo venne fucilato per la fede in Cristo.
Andrij Iscak nacque il 23 settembre 1887 a Mykolayiv, nella regione ucraina di Lviv (Leopoli). Compì i suoi studi teologigi nelle università di Lviv e di Innsbruck. Qui nel 1914 conseguì il dottorato in teologia e poté così ricevere l’ordinazione presbiterale, divenendo sacerdote diocesano di rito bizantino dell’Arcieparchia di Lviv degli Ucraini. Dal 1928 divenne insegnante all’università di Lviv e parroco del villaggio di Sykhiv, nei pressi di Lviv.
La parrocchia del suo apostolato divenne anche il luogo in cui si consumò il suo martirio, il 26 giugno 1941, per mano dei soldati dell’armata sovietica ormai in ritirata. Andrij Iscak fu beatificato da Giovanni Paolo II il 27 giugno 2001, insieme con altre 24 vittime del regime sovietico di nazionalità ucraina.
Autore: Fabio Arduino
Voir aussi : https://catholicreadings.org/catholic-quotes/saint-of-the-day-26-june-blessed-andrii-ischak/