Tarsykiya Matskiv
Olha Matskiv, better known by her religious name, Tarsykiya or Tarsykia (23 March 1919 – 17 July 1944), was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic nun and martyr.
Matskiv was born in Chodorów, Second Polish Republic (now Khodoriv, Ukraine). She entered the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate on 3 May 1938. She took her first vows on 5 November 1940, and worked in her convent, sewing clothes for the sisters and teaching others the skill. Even before the arrival of the Soviet Army to Lviv, she took vows before her spiritual director, Volodymyr Kovalyk, that she would give up her life for the conversion of Russia and for the Catholic Church.
On 17 July 1944 around 8 am, a Russian soldier rang the convent door. When Matskiv answered the door, expecting to see a priest who was supposed to celebrate the liturgy, she was shot without warning and died. It was later said that she was shot simply "because she was a nun".
In the Martyrology
- July 18 Blessed Tarsykia Mats’kiv, virgin of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate, martyr of Ukraine