Aleksy Zarycki
Ukrainian Catholic priest and martyr (1912–1963)
Feast: 30 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the town of Dolinka near Karaganda in Kazakhstan, Blessed Aleksy Zarycki, priest and martyr, who, deported under a regime hostile to God to a prison camp, won eternal life in the struggle for the faith.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 30 October as a priest who died a martyr in a prison camp in Kazakhstan.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Roman Martyrology, 30 October (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q7269834 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Oleksiy Zaryckyy (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.