✦ Remembering Saints

Feast day: November 12

St. Josaphat

Bishop, Martyr · 1580–1623

Patron of Church unity

An archbishop of the Eastern Catholic Church in what is now Ukraine and Belarus, who worked for unity between East and West and was killed by a mob opposed to it.

He died for the cause of Christian unity — the first saint of the Eastern Catholic churches to be formally canonized by Rome.

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