Bishop Velychkovsky National Martyr’s Shrine Feastday – 2024
By bvmartyr
/ July 17, 2024
On Wednesday, June 26th, on the eve of the Martyr’s Feastday, pilgrims gathered at St. Joseph’s Ukrainian Catholic Church –...
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Bishop Velychkovsky National Martyr’s Shrine Feastday 2023
By bvmartyr
/ July 5, 2023
This year, the shrine held its annual Feastday for Blessed Vasyl commemorating the 50th anniversary of his death. On Monday,...
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Blessed May You Be, Mother!
By bvmartyr
/ May 11, 2023
This is a heartfelt and tender dedication to his mother by Vasyl Velychkovsky, then a Redemptorist priest and missionary. It...
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Words to Embrace For This New Year
By bvmartyr
/ January 13, 2023
Over the last 15 years, the Bishop Velychkovsky Shrine has been supporting a sister in Ukraine – Sister Julia, now...
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Bishop Velychkovsky National Martyr’s Shrine Feastday – June 27th, 2022
By bvmartyr
/ July 12, 2022
On Sunday, June 26th - on the eve of the Ukrainian Martyr's Feastday. The faithful gathered at St. Joseph's Ukrainian...
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St. Malo Catholic Summer Camp Young Adults Visit the Shrine
By bvmartyr
/ June 27, 2022
The St. Malo Catholic Summer Camp in St. Malo Manitoba, under the Catholic School of Evangelization came to visit the...
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20th Anniversary of Beatification
By bvmartyr
/ July 13, 2021
The year of 2021 marks the 20th Anniversary of the Beatification of our Ukrainian martyrs. On June 27, 2001 in...
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Special visitors visit the Shrine and museum
By bvmartyr
/ August 18, 2020
On Wednesday August 12th 2020, the Shrine staff welcomed Honourable Raquel Dancho, MP for Kildonan-St. Paul, Winnipeg, to the Museum...
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Feastday Celebrations on June 27, 2020
By bvmartyr
/ July 7, 2020
On June 27, 2020 our annual Blessed Vasyl Feasday celebrations were organized virtually. COVID-19 virus posed a lot of challenges....
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Special Pilgrims visit the Shrine and museum
By bvmartyr
/ February 4, 2020
On Friday Jan 31st 2020, a group of priests came to visit the Shrine and honour Blessed Vasyl`s holy relics....
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Visit to Kovel Ukraine
By bvmartyr
/ July 26, 2019
While recently in Ukraine Fr. John Sianchuk and Mary Jane Kalenchuk visited a newly constructed chapel in honor of Blessed...
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Feastday June 27, 2019
By bvmartyr
/ June 28, 2019
The Feast Day took place on June 27, 2019 at St. Joseph`s Ukrainian Catholic Church to commemorate Blessed Martyr Vasyl Velychkovsky. The program...
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10 Facts about Blessed Vasyl Velyckovsky (In Ukrainian)
By bvmartyr
/ April 4, 2019
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Interdiocesan Permanent Diaconal Formation Program, Novemeber 17, 2018
By bvmartyr
/ November 24, 2018
On November 17th, 2018 19 people from the Interdiocesan (Winnipeg & St. Boniface) permanent Diaconal Formation program came for a...
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Pilgrimage Reunion September 30, 2018
By bvmartyr
/ November 5, 2018
On September 30, 2018 those who participated in the Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky Pilgrimage to Ukraine this past summer gathered together...
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New church dedicated to Blessed Vasyl in Kovel, Ukraine October 2, 2018
By bvmartyr
/ October 3, 2018
The foundations for a new church in Kovel, Ukraine that will be dedicated to Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky was laid on...
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Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky Presentations In France (July 22 & 29, 2018)
By bvmartyr
/ September 15, 2018
At the end of July, our team from Ukraine, Oleh and Tania, at the invitation of Bishop Boris Gudziak, travelled...
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Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky Pilgrimage in Ukraine (July 8 – 29, 2018)
By bvmartyr
/ July 18, 2018
The Bishop Velychkovsky Martyr’s Shrine conducted a pilgrimage for 22 days to places in Ukraine where Blessed Martyr Vasyl lived,...
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Catholic Home-schooled Families Visit Shrine, June 28, 2018
By bvmartyr
/ July 5, 2018
Several Catholic home-schooled families visited the Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky Shrine and Museum. The families including twenty-two children were given a...
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Feast Day, June 27, 2018
By bvmartyr
/ June 28, 2018
The Feast Day took place on June 27, 2018 at St. Joseph`s Ukrainian Catholic Church to commemorate Blessed Martyr Vasyl Velychkovsky. The program...
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