Biography of Father Jan Bikszys
- Description:
- Born in 1870; finished St. Petersburg Theological Seminary and was ordained in 1893 for the Archdiocese of Mogiliev. From 1894 he was vicar at a parish in Liutsyn; from 1897, in Brodaizhe; from 1910, administrator of the parish in Powsin; from 1913, administrator and religion teacher in Landskorona, outside Liutsyn, where he was murdered by Bolsheviks March 10, 1918. Source: Dzwonkowski (1998), p. 163; Madała, p. 24
- Variant Names:
- Bikshis, Ioani (Ian); Bikszys, Jan
- Dates:
- 1870-1918
- Locations:
- Saint Petersburg (Russia); Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ (Ukraine); Moscow (Russia)
- Subjects:
- male; clergy and religious; executed