Saint Gabriel Urgebadze: Georgian Confessor and Fool for Christ of Samtavro
Saint Gabriel Urgebadze was a Georgian Orthodox hieromonk and archimandrite who lived under Soviet rule. He is remembered for burning a portrait of Lenin in 1965, for his years at Samtavro Monastery, and for his life as a fool for Christ. He was glorified by the Georgian Orthodox Church in 2012.
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 Nykyta Budka: First Ukrainian Catholic Bishop of Canada and Martyr
Blessed Nykyta Budka was the first Ukrainian Catholic bishop of Canada, later a prisoner of the Soviets, who died in Kazakhstan in 1949 and was beatified in 2001.
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.
Blessed Hryhoriy Lakota: Bishop and Hieromartyr of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Blessed Hryhoriy Lakota was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop and scholar who refused Soviet pressure, died in the Abez labor camp in 1950, and was beatified in 2001.