Institute of Church History and the NGO “European Transcarpathia” presented the photo album “Persecuted for Righteousness…” (PHOTOS)

At the initiative of the Institute of Church History and with the support of the NGO "European Transcarpathia", the presentation of the album "Persecuted for Righteousness: Ukrainian Greek Catholics under the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century" took place in the Transcarpathian Regional Universal Scientific Library.

The presentation was attended by Svitlana Hurkina, the Director of the ICH, compiler of the album, Lviv, Iryna Kolomiyets, the head of the museum room of Yosyp Slipy at the UCU, Volodymyr Netak, the director of the UCU publishing house, Lviv, and Maria Mayoroshi, member of the NGO "European Transcarpathia" reasearcher of the history of the GCC.

Previously, the album was presented at the 23rd Publishers Forum in September in the city of Lviv, where it was listed among the 23 best books of 2016, as well as in the Polish city of Kętrzyn.

The publication consists of 5 thematic-chronological chapters, covering the difficult and at the same time dramatic history of the Catholic Church in the twentieth century, namely the Galician Archdiocese (including the western part of Przemysl Diocese, which after the Second World War was in the Polish People’s Republic) and the Mukachevo Diocese in the period from 1921 to 1991. The feature of the album is that the reader can learn about the history of the Church through personalities, see how the services took place in 1920-46, then in the Catacomb period, living conditions in camps. In addition, there are many photographs and documents (440) and excerpts from interviews with priests from the ICH archives, which are published for the first time.