Vasyl Velychkovsky
Vasyl Velychkovsky was born on June 1, 1903. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Vasyl Velychkovsky
Vasyl Vsevolod Velychkovsky, CSsR (Ukrainian: Василь Володимирович Величковський; June 1, 1903 – June 30, 1973) 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.