In Lviv "Prison on Lontskoho" Remember about. Omelian Kovch
Wednesday, 25bereznya, at 13.00 at the cross in the yard of the National Memorial Museum "Prison on Lontskoho" priests Center for Military Chaplains of the UGCC celebrated requiem to the 71st anniversary of the death in a Nazi concentration camp at Maydenek. Omelian Kovch. His way to the cross martyr kontstabORU death in Lublin on. Omelian Kovch started in HC ’ yaznenni in the infamous prison on Lontskoho in Lviv, where during the Nazi occupation Gestapo Prison located. Omelian Kovch Gestapo arrested in spring 1943 for helping Jews. In HC ’ yaznenni he secretly continued his priestly activity. Father Omelian Co.RF beatified June 27, 2001 in the city. Lviv during the Divine Liturgy in the Byzantine rite involving Pope John Paul II. April 24, 2009 Omelian blessed Kovch was proclaimed patron of shepherds Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. April 27, 2009 in Odessa from Majdanek was brought ashes that remained on many burnedNazi people. Because it was impossible to find real relics Omelian Kovch, UGCC leadership has decided to consider this dust relics of the blessed martyr.Source: http://artlife.rv.ua/