New saint: Metropolitan Onuphry leads glorification of archimandrite martyred by Bolsheviks (+VIDEO)

Sumy, Ukraine, September 28, 2021

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Over the weekend, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine headed the liturgical glorification of Hieromartyr Archimandrite Aristarkh (Sitalo), who offered his life to Christ at the hands of the Bolsheviks.

The Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Church approved St. Aristarkh for local veneration in the Sumy Diocese at its session on December 9, together with four other ascetics of piety.

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And on Saturday, the Ukrainian primate and 8 other hierarchs of the Ukrainian Church celebrated the Divine Liturgy with the rite of glorification at Holy Transfiguration Cathedral in Sumy, reports the Information-Education Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

The rite of glorification was celebrated after the Small Entrance in the Liturgy. The Chancellor of the UOC, His Eminence Metropolitan Anthony of Boryspil and Brovary, read out the relevant Synodal decision and the life of the newly-glorified saint.

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Then the troparion, kontakion, and magnification to St. Aristarkh were sung, with the veneration of his icon.

Following the Gospel, His Beatitude offered a homily in which he spoke of St. Aristarkh as a “good example of a good shepherd who laid down his life for his flock, for the confession of the faith.”

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Watch highlights from the service:

The holy Hieromartyr Aristarkh was born in 1862. He spent nearly his entire life in monasticism at Holy Trinity Monastery in Akhtyrka in the Sumy Province, serving as abbot from 1906 until his death in July 1919 at the hands of the Bolsheviks.

Together, with St. Aristarkh, the Ukrainian Synod also canonized Hieromartyr Fr. Vasily Slotvinsky (+1919), Fr. Theodore Statkevich (+1919), Fr. Alexander Balanutsa (+1919), and Fr. Jacob Ilichevsky (+1919) in December. Their liturgical glorification was celebrated in June, together with the glorification of the Blessed Confessor Julita Pedan.

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9/28/2021

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Comments
Panagiotis9/30/2021 3:24 am
May His Memory Be Eternal and may his Spirit be at rest... One of tens of thousands of Orthodox Priests, Bishops, Monks, and Nuns who were savagely murdered by the monster communists... The animals took pleasure in torturing and killing these Orthodox Martyrs in the most inhumane, savage, and disgusting ways... May the memories of these deceased bolshevik communist murderers be erased forever, and may our God of Justice and Vengeance show no mercy on their souls...
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