Lavrentia Herasymiv
Lavrentia Herasymiv was an ethnic Ukrainian Soviet Greek Catholic nun and martyr.
Lavrentia Herasymiv, born Levkadia, on September 30, 1911 in Rudnyky, Lviv Region. She became a nun in 1933. In 1950, she was arrested by the NKVD and sentenced to exile in Tomsk Oblast. She was sick with tuberculosis when she arrived and only one family agreed to give her a place to live. Here she lived with a paralyzed man, behind a partition. She never received proper medical attention.
On August 28, 1952, she died in Kharsk in Siberia's Tomsk Region.
In the Martyrology
- August 26 Blessed Lavrentia Harasymiv, virgin of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, martyr of Russia