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'''Josaphata Hordashevska''', born '''Michaelina Hordashevska''' (20 November 1869 – 7 April 1919) an ethnic Ukrainian Greek-Catholic in the Austro-Hungarian Empire [[nun#Religious Sister|Religious Sister]], was the first member and co-foundress of the [[Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate]].
'''Josaphata''' (''née'' '''Michaelina Hordashevska'''; [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]: Михайлина Гордашевська; 20 November 1869 – 7 April 1919) was a Ukrainian [[Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church|Greek-Catholic]] [[nun#Religious Sister|Religious Sister]] in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She was the first member and co-foundress of the [[Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate]].


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Michaelina Hordashevska was born 20 November 1869 in [[Lviv]], then part of the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]] and now [[Ukraine]], into a family who were members of the [[Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church|Ukrainian Catholic Church]]. At the age of 18, she considered consecrating her life to God in a [[contemplative]] [[monastery]] of the [[Order of St Basil the Great|Basilian nuns]], then the only Eastern-rite women's [[religious congregation]].<ref name=vat>[http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/ns_lit_doc_20010627_hordashevska_en.html "Josaphata Hordashevska(1869-1919)", Vatican News Service]</ref> She attended a [[spiritual retreat]] which was preached by a [[Order of St. Basil the Great|Basilian monk]], Father [[Jeremiah Lomnytskyj]], whose spiritual guidance she sought. With his permission, Hordashevska took a private [[vow]] of [[chastity]] for one year. She was to renew this vow twice.
Michaelina Hordashevska was born 20 November 1869 in [[Lviv]], then part of the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]] and now [[Ukraine]], into a family who were members of the [[Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church|Ukrainian Catholic Church]]. At the age of 18, she considered consecrating her life to God in a [[contemplative]] [[monastery]] of the [[Order of St Basil the Great|Basilian nuns]], then the only Eastern-rite women's [[religious congregation]].<ref name=vat>[http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/ns_lit_doc_20010627_hordashevska_en.html "Josaphata Hordashevska(1869-1919)", Vatican News Service]</ref> She attended a [[spiritual retreat]] which was preached by a [[Order of St. Basil the Great|Basilian monk]], [[Jeremiah Lomnytskyj]], whose spiritual guidance she sought. With his permission, Hordashevska took a private [[vow]] of [[chastity]] for one year. She was to renew this vow twice.


At that time, Lomnytsky, seeing that there was a need of active Religious Sisters to meet the social needs of the poor and needy faithful of the church, had decided to establish a women's congregation which would follow an active life of service. He did so in conjunction with Father [[Cyril Sielecki]], [[pastor]] of the village of Zhuzhelyany. Lomnytsky felt that Hordashevska would be an appropriate candidate to found such a congregation. Thus she was asked to be the foundress of such a group, rather than follow the monastic life she had been considering. When she agreed, she was sent in June 1892 to the [[Poland|Polish]] [[Roman Catholic]] [[Felician Sisters]] to experience the life of community which followed an active [[consecrated life]].<ref name=vat/>
At that time, Lomnytsky, seeing that there was a need of active religious sisters to meet the social needs of the poor and needy faithful of the church, had decided to establish a women's congregation which would follow an active life of service. He did so in conjunction with [[Cyril Sielecki]], [[pastor]] of the village of Zhuzhelyany. Lomnytsky felt that Hordashevska would be an appropriate candidate to found such a congregation. Thus she was asked to be the foundress of such a group, rather than follow the monastic life she had been considering. When she agreed, she was sent in June 1892 to the [[Poland|Polish]] [[Roman Catholic]] [[Felician Sisters]] to experience the life of community which followed an active [[consecrated life]].<ref name=vat/>


Hordashevska returned to Lviv two months later and, on 24 August 1892, took the [[religious habit]] of the new Congregation and received the name '''Josaphata''', in honor of the Ukrainian Catholic [[martyr]], [[Josaphat Kuntsevych]]. She then went to Zhuzhelyany, and became the first [[superior (hierarchy)|Superior]] of the seven young women who had been recruited for the new institute, training them in the spirit and charism of the Sisters Servants: "Serve your people where the need is greatest".<ref name=vat/>
Hordashevska returned to Lviv two months later and, on 24 August 1892, took the [[religious habit]] of the new congregation and received the name '''Josaphata''', in honor of the Ukrainian Catholic [[martyr]] [[Josaphat Kuntsevych]]. She then went to Zhuzhelyany, and became the first [[superior (hierarchy)|Superior]] of the seven young women who had been recruited for the new institute, training them in the spirit and charism of the Sisters Servants: "Serve your people where the need is greatest".<ref name=vat/>


For the rest of her life, Hordashevska led the new Congregation, through its growth and development. She oversaw the development of the various new ministries the Sisters entered. For this, she had to steer a new path for the Sisters in the Eastern Church, sometimes being caught between the conflicting visions of Fathers Lomnytsky and Sielecki.<ref name=icon>[https://skeparchy.org/news-articles-documents/news-articles/news-from-the-eparchy/blessed-josaphata-icon.html "Blessed Josaphata Hordashevska and Her Icon", Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon]</ref>
For the rest of her life, Hordashevska led the new congregation, through its growth and development. She oversaw the development of the various new ministries the Sisters entered. For this, she had to steer a new path for the sisters in the Eastern Church, sometimes being caught between the conflicting visions of Lomnytsky and Sielecki.<ref name=icon>{{Cite web |url=https://skeparchy.org/news-articles-documents/news-articles/news-from-the-eparchy/blessed-josaphata-icon.html |title="Blessed Josaphata Hordashevska and Her Icon", Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon |access-date=22 May 2020 |archive-date=3 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160703181927/http://www.skeparchy.org/news-articles-documents/news-articles/news-from-the-eparchy/blessed-josaphata-icon.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>


By 1902 the Congregation numbered 128 Sisters, in 26 convents across the country. They were able to hold their first [[General Chapter]] in August of that year, at which Hordashevska was elected the first [[Superior General]] of the Congregation and Lomnytsky resigned from that office. Soon, however, internal divisions led Hordashevska to tender her resignation to the [[Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv|Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv]], [[Andrey Sheptytsky]]. Under the new Superior General appointed by the Metropolitan Archbishop, Hordashevska and her natural sister, Sister Arsenia Hordashevska, were denied permission to take permanent vows.<ref name=icon/>
By 1902, the congregation numbered 128 sisters, in 26 convents across the country. They were able to hold their first [[General Chapter]] in August of that year, at which Hordashevska was elected the first [[superior general]] of the congregation and Lomnytsky resigned from that office. Soon, however, internal divisions led Hordashevska to tender her resignation to the [[Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv|Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv]], [[Andrey Sheptytsky]]. Under the new superior general appointed by the Metropolitan Archbishop, Hordashevska and her natural sister, Arsenia Hordashevska, were denied permission to take permanent vows.<ref name=icon/>


Due to her [[canon law|canonical]] status of still being in temporary vows, Hordashevska was ineligible to participate in the next General Chapter of the Congregation. Nonetheless, she was elected [[Vicar General|Vicaress General]] of the Congregation ''in absentia'', with the delegates of the Chapter petitioning the Metropolitan that she be allowed to make her permanent vows. This request was granted, and Hordashevska did so the following day, 11 May 1909, and assumed the office to which she had been voted.<ref name=icon/>
Due to her [[canon law|canonical]] status of still being in temporary vows, Hordashevska was ineligible to participate in the next General Chapter of the congregation. Nonetheless, she was elected [[Vicar General|vicaress general]] of the congregation ''in absentia'', with the delegates of the chapter petitioning the metropolitan that she be allowed to make her permanent vows. This request was granted, and Hordashevska did so the following day, 11 May 1909, and assumed the office to which she had been voted.<ref name=icon/>


Three years later, Hordashevska was diagnosed with [[tuberculosis]] of the bone. In 1919, at the age of 49 and on the day she had predicted, she died amidst terrible suffering. Her mortal remains were exhumed in 1982 and taken to [[Rome]], where they are kept in a [[reliquary]] in the [[motherhouse|General Motherhouse]] of the Sisters Servants in [[Rome]]. The process of her beatification started in Rome in 1983 and on 27 June 2001 she was beatified by Pope [[John Paul II]] in [[Lviv]].<ref>[http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ELENCO_BEATI_GPII.htm "Beatifications of Pope Saint John Paul II", Vatican News Service]</ref> Numerous miracles are ascribed due to her intercession after her death.
Three years later, Hordashevska was diagnosed with [[tuberculosis]] of the bone. In 1919, at the age of 49 and on the day she had predicted, she died amidst terrible suffering.<ref name=":0" />

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As of 2001, her religious order, the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate is now the largest female religious community in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Church of the Martyrs: The New Saints of Ukraine|publisher=St John's Monastery|year=2002|isbn=966-561-345-6|location=Lviv, Ukraine|pages=7}}</ref>


== Influence ==
== Influence ==
According to the testimony of Sister Philomena Yuskiv, "She[Josaphata Hordashevska] showed her love for her people through her heart-felt desire to lift them up morally and spiritually; she taught children, youth and women, served the sick, visited the poor and needy, taught liturgical chant and looked after the Church's beauty."<ref name=":0" />
According to the testimony of Philomena Yuskiv, "She [Josaphata Hordashevska] showed her love for her people through her heart-felt desire to lift them up morally and spiritually; she taught children, youth and women, served the sick, visited the poor and needy, taught liturgical chant and looked after the Church's beauty."<ref name=":0" /> Numerous miracles are ascribed due to her intercession after her death.

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As of 2001,{{Update inline|date=December 2023}} her religious order, the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate, was the largest female religious community in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Church of the Martyrs: The New Saints of Ukraine|publisher=St John's Monastery|year=2002|isbn=966-561-345-6|location=Lviv, Ukraine|pages=7}}</ref>


== Relics ==
== Relics ==
In November 1982, Sister Josaphata's remains were transferred to a small chapel in the General Chapter of the Congregation of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate in Rome. Small parts of the relics remain in various places around Ukraine. This includes a monastery in the city of Lviv, located on Pasichna Street.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Копровська|first=Галина|date=Листопада 17-24, 2011|title=допомижи стати батьками|journal=Експрес|volume=№ 129 (6054)|pages=9}}</ref> <ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Виховувати серце народу і служити там, де є найбільша потреба: Блаженна Йосафата Гордaшевська|url=http://libs.ubs.edu.ua/index.php/ua/25-oholoshennia/1828-20-november.html}}</ref>
In November 1982, Hordashevska's remains were exhumed and taken to [[Rome]], where they are kept in a [[reliquary]] in the [[motherhouse|general motherhouse]] of the Congregation of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate in Rome. Small parts of the relics remain in various places around Ukraine, including a monastery in the city of Lviv, located on Pasichna Street.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Копровська|first=Галина|date=November 17-24, 2011|title=допомижи стати батьками|journal=Експрес|volume=№ 129 (6054)|pages=9}}</ref> <ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Виховувати серце народу і служити там, де є найбільша потреба: Блаженна Йосафата Гордaшевська|url=http://libs.ubs.edu.ua/index.php/ua/25-oholoshennia/1828-20-november.html}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>


== Beatification ==
== Beatification ==
On 27 June 2001, she was proclaimed Blessed by [[Pope John Paul II]] in Lviv. The beatification ceremony took place on 27 June 2001 in Lviv during the Holy Liturgy in the Byzantine rite with the participation of [[Pope John Paul II]].<ref name=":1" />
On 27 June 2001, she was proclaimed Blessed by [[Pope John Paul II]] in Lviv, in a beatification ceremony during the Holy Liturgy in the Byzantine rite.<ref name=":1" />


==See also==
==See also==
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Blessed

Josaphata Hordashevska

S.S.M.I.
Religious Sister, Foundress
Born(1869-11-20)20 November 1869
Lviv, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died7 April 1919(1919-04-07) (aged 49)
Lviv, Second Polish Republic
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church Ukrainian Catholic Church
Beatified27 June 2001, Lviv, Ukraine by John Paul II
Major shrineGeneral Motherhouse of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate, Rome, Italy
Feast20 November

Josaphata (née Michaelina Hordashevska; Ukrainian: Михайлина Гордашевська; 20 November 1869 – 7 April 1919) was a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Religious Sister in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She was the first member and co-foundress of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate.

Biography

Michaelina Hordashevska was born 20 November 1869 in Lviv, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now Ukraine, into a family who were members of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. At the age of 18, she considered consecrating her life to God in a contemplative monastery of the Basilian nuns, then the only Eastern-rite women's religious congregation.[1] She attended a spiritual retreat which was preached by a Basilian monk, Jeremiah Lomnytskyj, whose spiritual guidance she sought. With his permission, Hordashevska took a private vow of chastity for one year. She was to renew this vow twice.

At that time, Lomnytsky, seeing that there was a need of active religious sisters to meet the social needs of the poor and needy faithful of the church, had decided to establish a women's congregation which would follow an active life of service. He did so in conjunction with Cyril Sielecki, pastor of the village of Zhuzhelyany. Lomnytsky felt that Hordashevska would be an appropriate candidate to found such a congregation. Thus she was asked to be the foundress of such a group, rather than follow the monastic life she had been considering. When she agreed, she was sent in June 1892 to the Polish Roman Catholic Felician Sisters to experience the life of community which followed an active consecrated life.[1]

Hordashevska returned to Lviv two months later and, on 24 August 1892, took the religious habit of the new congregation and received the name Josaphata, in honor of the Ukrainian Catholic martyr Josaphat Kuntsevych. She then went to Zhuzhelyany, and became the first Superior of the seven young women who had been recruited for the new institute, training them in the spirit and charism of the Sisters Servants: "Serve your people where the need is greatest".[1]

For the rest of her life, Hordashevska led the new congregation, through its growth and development. She oversaw the development of the various new ministries the Sisters entered. For this, she had to steer a new path for the sisters in the Eastern Church, sometimes being caught between the conflicting visions of Lomnytsky and Sielecki.[2]

By 1902, the congregation numbered 128 sisters, in 26 convents across the country. They were able to hold their first General Chapter in August of that year, at which Hordashevska was elected the first superior general of the congregation and Lomnytsky resigned from that office. Soon, however, internal divisions led Hordashevska to tender her resignation to the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv, Andrey Sheptytsky. Under the new superior general appointed by the Metropolitan Archbishop, Hordashevska and her natural sister, Arsenia Hordashevska, were denied permission to take permanent vows.[2]

Due to her canonical status of still being in temporary vows, Hordashevska was ineligible to participate in the next General Chapter of the congregation. Nonetheless, she was elected vicaress general of the congregation in absentia, with the delegates of the chapter petitioning the metropolitan that she be allowed to make her permanent vows. This request was granted, and Hordashevska did so the following day, 11 May 1909, and assumed the office to which she had been voted.[2]

Three years later, Hordashevska was diagnosed with tuberculosis of the bone. In 1919, at the age of 49 and on the day she had predicted, she died amidst terrible suffering.[3]

Influence

According to the testimony of Philomena Yuskiv, "She [Josaphata Hordashevska] showed her love for her people through her heart-felt desire to lift them up morally and spiritually; she taught children, youth and women, served the sick, visited the poor and needy, taught liturgical chant and looked after the Church's beauty."[3] Numerous miracles are ascribed due to her intercession after her death.

As of 2001,[needs update] her religious order, the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate, was the largest female religious community in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.[3]

Relics

In November 1982, Hordashevska's remains were exhumed and taken to Rome, where they are kept in a reliquary in the general motherhouse of the Congregation of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate in Rome. Small parts of the relics remain in various places around Ukraine, including a monastery in the city of Lviv, located on Pasichna Street.[4] [5]

Beatification

On 27 June 2001, she was proclaimed Blessed by Pope John Paul II in Lviv, in a beatification ceremony during the Holy Liturgy in the Byzantine rite.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Josaphata Hordashevska(1869-1919)", Vatican News Service
  2. ^ a b c ""Blessed Josaphata Hordashevska and Her Icon", Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon". Archived from the original on 3 July 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  3. ^ a b c Church of the Martyrs: The New Saints of Ukraine. Lviv, Ukraine: St John's Monastery. 2002. p. 7. ISBN 966-561-345-6.
  4. ^ Копровська, Галина (17–24 November 2011). "допомижи стати батьками". Експрес. № 129 (6054): 9. {{cite journal}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  5. ^ a b "Виховувати серце народу і служити там, де є найбільша потреба: Блаженна Йосафата Гордaшевська".[permanent dead link]
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