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Josaphat Kuntsevych, OSBM (c. 1580 – 12 November 1623) was a Basilian monk and archeparch of the Ruthenian Uniate Church who on 12 November 1623 was killed by an angry mob in Vitebsk, in the eastern peripheries of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He remains one of the best-known victims of anti-Catholic violence related to implementing the Union of Brest, and has been declared a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church. (Full article...)

A devotional painting of Saint Josaphat Kuncevyc, from an English church building.

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Patronage: Ukraine; Polish parishes in the United States, most notably among them are the Basilica of St. Josaphat, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and St Josaphat's parish in Chicago, Illinois.

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