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Vitaliy Bayrak (), sometimes referred to as Volodomyr Bayrak (; February 24, 1907 April 21, 1946), was a Ukrainian Catholic priest and
martyr A martyr (, ''mártys'', 'witness' Word stem, stem , ''martyr-'') is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party. In ...
. Born in Szajkowce in
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(now Shvaikivtsi, near
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in modern-day
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), he entered a Basilian monastery in 1924 and was ordained a priest on August 13, 1933. He was appointed superior at the Drohobych monastery on in place of Yakym Senkivskyi. Throughout his life, he was considered to be a very active and friendly missionary, who possessed a great gift for giving spiritual direction. On September 17, 1945, Bayrak was arrested and, on November 13, was sentenced to imprisonment for confiscating property, even though he had none. On Easter 1946, he died a martyr for the faith after having been beaten in the Drohobych prison.


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