Sep 28

Blessed Nykyta Budka

September 28th XX century

Name
Nykyta (Masculino)
Dead
September 28th 1949 in Karadzar, in current Kazakhstan
Celebration
September 28th
In the town of Karadzar, near Karaganda in Kazakhstan, blessed Nykyta Budka, first bishop in Canada at the forefront of Catholics of the Byzantine rite, who in times of regime hostile to God, was deported to a concentration camp, where persevered in the faith faced, for Christ's sake, death with fortitude to all adversities. Roman martyrology