Olimpia Bida
Ukrainian religious (1903-1952)
Feast: 28 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the prison camp of Kharsk near Tomsk in Siberia in Russia, Blessed Olimpia (Olga) Bida, virgin of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph and martyr, who under a regime of persecution against the faith endured every adversity for love of Christ.
The miracles
As a martyr she was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 28 January as a Sister of Saint Joseph who died a martyr in a Siberian 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, 28 January (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q3881664 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.