New Martyr
Joseph Niczyporuk
An Orthodox believer of Zaleszany in Podlasie, killed in 1946 together with other villagers.
- Reposed
- 194620th century
- Place
- Zaleszany
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy New Martyr Joseph Niczyporuk was an Orthodox believer of the village of Zaleszany in Podlasie, Poland, killed in 1946.
On 29 January 1946 a detachment of the National Military Union (NZW) under Romuald Rajs, known as "Bury", entered the Orthodox village of Zaleszany in Podlasie. The villagers were called to a house and the buildings were then set on fire; sixteen people died, fourteen of them burned alive, among them seven children.
He belonged to the Niczyporuk family, who had not gone to the gathering and had hidden inside their house; the house was set on fire and all the family died, two of them children.
The Council of Bishops of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church counted him among the 79 Podlasie martyrs proclaimed on 25 July 2020 at the monastery of Saint Catherine in Zaleszany. They are remembered on the last Saturday of July, the day of the Zaleszany Icon of the Mother of God.