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This is the Traditional Byzantine Catholic Cross. |
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Children and adults working on construction of the
parish house in Kugor, Summer 2002.
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Original foundation for Kugor parish house, Spring, 2002.
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Partly completed Parish House for St Michael the Archangel Parish
in Kugor, Trans-Carpathian Oblast. All work was done by adults |
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Seminary Dining room with traditional lace trim at windows and
large wooden crucifix. Food is sometimes in short supply, but the company
is good.
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Seminarians with retired Bishop Semedi (left) and Bishop Shashik
(right) in Seminary courtyard with statue of Blessed Theodore Romzha, Bishop
and Martyr. The short nun to the right of the statue is Sister Teofilia,
OSBM, who was with Bishop Theodore on the night he was killed. For witnessing
his execution in the hospital, Sister was exiled to the Arctic, where she
prayed to God often for protection through the holy martyr's intercession.
She has outlived all her persecutors.
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Seminarians at the Crucifix in courtyard. The roads are lined
with stone, concrete, and wooden crucifixes again, at places for prayer
on highways and private yards alike. All roadside crosses were blown up
or torn down in the period 1949-53.
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The Seminary from a distance. Originally, the students had to
sleep in railroad boxcars - progress has been made!
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Seminarians in the chapel - look how full it is! |
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Success in Eastern Slovakia. These show the renovation of the church
interior and icon-screen of the Greek-Catholic church in the town of Trebisov.
Your donations allowed this church to be brought back to its full splendor
of pre-communist days, and helped with the beginning of a youth center.
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Exterior of Assumption of Our Lady Church with traditional Cross
to left. The doors are decorated for the arrival of the Bishop.
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Bishop Milan Chautur celebrating the Divine Liturgy in the restored
church.
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The iconostas and church ceiling in all its splendor.
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The Icon Screen and Sanctuary of Saint Michael Greek Catholic
Church in Miskolc, Hungary. The altar itself is covered by a traditional
baldachino, and Our Lady Queen of Hungary is on the apse wall behind it.
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Your gifts of Liturgy intentions help young priests' families
like these - Father Janko Gabor, Miskolc
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| A contemporary icon of our Holy Father Saint Nicholas, patron
of the Bzyantine Ruthenian Catholic Church, from the hand of Father Janko
Gabor.
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| Blessed Leonid Feodorv, Exarch of Byzantine Catholics in Russia
in the USSR, Martyr for Unity of the Churches, died in exile in 1935 without
the Holy Sacraments. Beatified in 2001.
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| Blessed Theodore Romzha, ordained as the Red Army advanced across
Trans-Carpathia in 1944 at the age of 33. He led the Greek Catholic Church
heroically under tremendously difficult circumstances. Because of his example,
most of the seminarians chose to be ordained as priests despite the obvious
danger from the Soviets. On November 1, 1947, he was executed in the Mukachevo
Hospital by lethal injection after surviving an attempted assasination.
Blessed Theodore had hoped to be a secret missionary to the USSR - instead
the USSR came to him, and he did his best to evangelize the Communist regime.
His memory strengthened the faithful who were driven underground from 1949
- 1989 in the Trans-Carpathian Oblast. His relics now repose in the Cathedral
of the Holy Cross in Uzhorod.
This is a picture done when he was a student in Rome, at the Russicum College,
from the hand of Miklos Toth.
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Photos of the reception of the Relics of Blessed Theodore Romzha
in Uzhorod, Trans-Carpathian Oblast, Ukraine; by the clergy of the Eparchy
of Mukachevo, September, 2003. |
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Bishop Semedi welcoming the relics of our holy martyr, Blessed Theodore
Romzha
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| Procession Entering Uzhorod Castle where Union
was signed in 1646 of Byzantine Ruthenian Church with Holy See of Rome.
Banner of Bishop Romzha above gate, from the portrait
done of him in Rome as a student. The clergy are wearing red and purple
in his honor as a martyr for the Faith.
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| A procession with relics through city streets of Uzhorod to seminary
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| The Representative of the Pope - Roman cardinal Roger Echegaray
and our Bishop Milan Shashik.
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| The liturgy with relics of Bishop Romzha at site of old chapel
where the Union was signed in 1646.
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| Father Michael Maslej, one of seminarists which accompanied with
bishop Romzhu that day when it tried to kill.
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The clergy took turns carrying the holy relics. Here, a priestly
father and son team take their turn. On the right, Father Mikhail Shelemba
of Bilky. On the left, his son, Father Vitalii Shelemba of Berehovo-Kugor.
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Rose Mary Mastripolito, Conference organizer. Rose Mary served as first secretary and helper of the Mission Society, and is always happy to help out! |