The struggle for the sanctity of life preservation in activity of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky during the days of World War II

Authors

  • Orest Smytsniuk Kolomyia-Chernivtsi Diocese of the UGCC

Keywords:

Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, holiness, Second World War

Abstract

When we talk about the phenomenality of the Metropolitan, because it is true of universal planetary scale, a figure given by God Ukrainian people, we mean the diversity of his talents and activities. But his spiritual portrait is reflected especially in the background the tragedy of an age in which the identity of his words and deeds were revealed in full glory. It feat - during the statelessness of your people, in the most difficult period trials - to be a spiritual shepherd. Two worlds fell to his lot wars, Polish pacification, German occupation, Soviet totalitarian system with militant atheism, numerous concentration camps and mass destruction of the population.

Published

2015-12-20

How to Cite

Смицнюк, О. (2015). The struggle for the sanctity of life preservation in activity of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky during the days of World War II. Good Parson: Scientific Bulletin of Ivano-Frankivsk Academy of John Chrysostom. Theology. Philosophy. History, (8), 162–168. Retrieved from http://journal.ifaiz.edu.ua/index.php/gp/article/view/145