Ivan Ziatyk
Catholic priest (1899-1952)
Feast: 17 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the prison camp of Ozerlag near Irkutsk in Russia, Blessed Ivan Ziatyk, priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer and martyr, who, in a time of persecution against the faith, earned a place at the heavenly banquet of the just.
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 17 May as a Redemptorist priest and martyr who died in the Ozerlag prison camp.
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, 17 May (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q2500920 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Ivan Ziatyk (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.