Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky: Redemptorist Bishop and Martyr of the Underground Church
Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky was a Redemptorist priest and bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He survived a death sentence, years in Soviet camps and a second arrest, and he died in exile in Canada in 1973.
Blessed Nicholas Charnetsky: Redemptorist Bishop and Confessor of the Faith
Blessed Nicholas Charnetsky was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Redemptorist bishop who endured Soviet imprisonment from 1945 to 1956 and was beatified in 2001.
Saint Alphonsus Liguori: The Neapolitan Lawyer Who Became Bishop, Founder of the Redemptorists and Doctor of the Church
A biography of Saint Alphonsus Liguori, the Neapolitan lawyer who became a priest, founded the Redemptorists, served as bishop of Sant’Agata de’ Goti and was named a Doctor of the Church, with documented history kept apart from tradition.