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Mar 23, 1919 Khodoriv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine Died on 18 Jul 1944 (aged 25)
Ukrainian nun (1919-1944)
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About Tarsykiya Matskiv
- Blessed Tarsykiya Matskiv (Ukrainian: ???????? ???????; 23 March 1919 – 17 July 1944) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic nun and martyr. Matskiv was born in Khodoriv, Lwów Voivodeship (now Lviv Oblast).
- She entered the Sister Servants of Mary Immaculate on 3 May 1938.
- She took her first vows on 5 November 1940, and worked in her convent.
- Even before the arrival of the Soviet Army to Lviv, she took vows before her spiritual director, Fr.
- Volodymyr Kovalyk (OSBM), that she would give up her life for the conversion of Russia and for the Catholic Church.On 17 July 1944 at around 8 a.m., a Russian soldier rang the convent door.
- When Matskiv answered the door she was shot without warning and died.
- It was later said that she was shot simply "because she was a nun".She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 27 June 2001.
