Image of Catholic martyr portraits
Image of Catholic martyr portraits

Book of Remembrance: Biographies of Catholic Clergy and Laity Repressed in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1918 to 1953 presents brief biographies of approximately 1,900 Catholic clergy and laity repressed by the Soviet regime under Lenin and Stalin.The biographies were compiled by Irina Osipova and Fr.Bronisƚaw Czaplicki, published by the Apostolic Administration for Catholics of North European Russia, and translated from Russian by Geraldine Kelley.

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Photographs on home page: The sixteen “Servants of God” selected for inclusion in a cause for canonization opened in May 2003. For more information on the cause, please see the Catholic New Martyrs of Russia site.