Holy
Poles who were martyred by the Papists
Holy
Martyr Peter.
Holy Martyr Peter was born in 1891 in the
village of Tarnavatka, in the county Tomasouf. After his general studies he
studied at an Agricultural School, from where he graduated in 1908. During the
1st World War years he was working as a teacher.
In his thirties Peter Ohrisko felt his
hieratic calling and entered the hieratic school in the city of Cremieniets.
After his graduation in 1923 he got married. During the same year in December
he was anointed deacon and priest in the city of Cremieniets by Metropolitan Anthony
of Loublin. For a decade, he served at different villages of the eparchy of
Bolynia.
In 1939 when the atheistic regime prevailed
in Bolynia, Father Peter returned to his place of birth, the eparchy of Helm in
the county of Tomasouf. He remained at the village of Sumin and was appointed officiating
priest of the parish of the village Moresin. During the difficult years of the
2nd World War he continued with zeal his hieratic service, placing
more importance on the spiritual progress of the youth. However, the spreading
papist propaganda and hate towards the Orthodox of the eparchy of Helm,
included him and his parish members, making them various underhanded proposals,
with the intention to make them deny Orthodoxy. Seeing that he was not giving
in, but only continue supporting his parish members, they unleashed against him
persecutions and threats.
Finally, in the year 1944 at the village
Tsartoviets of the county Zamosts, on Holy Monday while he was performing the
Presanctified Divine Liturgy, and while at the same time confessing the youth
that had gathered there, the papist rebels surrounded the church and seized
him, fully dressed in his hieratic vestments; they took him outside, tore his
hieratic vestments and tortured him horribly while taking him away from the
village. Over these tortures he surrendered his soul, remaining always in word
and works faithful to Orthodoxy. Many of the parish members met the same fate.
The murderers buried his body in place, in the fields and since then the
location of his grave with his relics remains unknown.
Holy
Poles who were martyred by the Papists
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