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We came across this interesting rare footage from a 1937 British newsreel featuring Ukrainian Catholic Servant of God, Bishop Mykola Charnetsky (1884-1959). In the newsreel, Bishop Mykola is celebrating an outdoor Divine Liturgy at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Liverpool, England, which was then under construction.
Eight years after this event, on the night of April 12, 1945, Bishop Mykola was arrested in Ukraine by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD, along with other Ukrainian Catholic bishops and clergy.
View here: 1937 British newsreel
Read more about Bishop Mykola and other Ukrainian Catholic Servants of God who suffered for the faith during the era of terrible Soviet persecution following WWII: