Andrey (Andrei,Andrew) Sheptytsky
(1865 -1944) He was Archbishop-Metropolitan of Lviv (Head of the Greek Catholic church ) from 1900 to 1944. He strove for greater understanding and "the movement towards church unity" between the Christian Churches of East and West. His enormous devotion to his Church has been recognized world-wide. During Nazi occupation his behavior was contradictory. He wrote to the Pope and described the atrocities and mass murder being carried out against the Jews and the local population. He also protested to Himmler himself. He issued a pastoral letter entitled "Thou Shalt Not Murder.", in which he publicly threatened "with Divine punishment" any who "shed innocent blood" to be excluded from the sacraments. At the same time he is one of several Ukrainian leaders affixing their signatures to a letter they sent to Hitler, pledging support for the "New Order" in Europe and he blessed the Waffen-SS Galicia as it sets out to do battle in 1943. But the fact is that Szeptycki hid 21 jewish children in his own cathedral, and 183 more in convents and monasteries. "Approximately 500 monks and nuns had knowledge of these facts, but in spite of the death penalty for sheltering Jews and financial rewards for all informers, none of the Metropolitan's wards fell into Nazi hands." The Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies About Andrey Sheptytsky Biography from wikipedia Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi who was called "the apostle of Ukrainian truth" Servant of God: Andrey Sheptytsky from thefreelibrary.com Books Christian Social Ethics in Ukraine: The Legacy of Andrei Sheptytsky by Andrii Krawchuk Pray for God's wisdom : the mystical sophiology of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky by Andriy Chirovsky Lvov Ghetto Diary by David Kahana Provides a virtual day-by-day account of conditions under which jews of Lvov lived and perished, from the July 194l - to the July 1944. And how he and his family was saved by Andrey Sheptytsky Andrey Sheptytsky at amazon |
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