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On Saturday, June 27, 2015, Fr. Joseph Ostopowich, Parish Administrator, and parishioners from St. Nicholas the Wonderworker Parish in Victoria, BC gathered to pray the Akathist to Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky. It was especially poignant for us to pray to Blessed Vasyl as he is the Patron of Prison Ministry and Fr. Joseph is a prison … Read more

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Seminarians from the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter visit and pray at Bl. Vasyl’s relics as part of their pilgrimages across Canadian Shrines.    

Redemptorist novices from North American Inter-Novitiate in Toronto visit the Shrine and Museum as part of their three day Eastern spirituality course under the direction of Fr. John Sianchuk, C.Ss.R. (Shrine Director)

Young adults who participated in this year’s S.E.R.V.E. (Summer Endeavour in a Redemptorist Volunteer Experience) learn about the life and martyrdom of Bl. Vasyl.

On the weekend of May 2 to the 3, 2015 our faithful in Belarus had an opportunity to learn more about the life of Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky and to venerate his holy relics. On Saturday, our volunteers from Lviv, Ukraine gave presentation about his life in the parishes of Sts. Peter and Andrew in Brest and … Read more