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St Josaphat Kuntsevych OSBM

(Polish: Jozafat Kuncewicz, Lithuanian: Juozapatas Kuncevičius, Ukrainian: Йосафат Кунцевич)
Bishop & marty from Ukraine
Ioann Kuntsevych was born c 1580 in Volodymyr (then in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth)
Died on 12 November 1623 in Vitebsk (now in Belarus)
Polish-Lithuanian monk and archeparch (archbishop) of the Ruthenian Catholic Church who was killed by an angry mob in Vitebsk, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (present day Belarus), on 12 November 1623. He is "the best-known victim" of anti-Catholic violence related to implementing the Union of Brest
Beatified on 16 May 1643 by Pope Urban VIII
Canonized on 29 June 1867 by Pope Pius IX
Feast day - 12th November

Pope Pius XI wrote his encyclical Ecclesiam Dei on the 300th anniversary of his martyrdom.