Petro Verhun
Ukrainian priest (1890-1957)
Feast: 7 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the prison camp of Angarsk in Siberia in Russia, Blessed Petro Verhun, priest and martyr, who, during the persecution against religion, remaining faithful in death, attained eternal life.
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 7 February as a priest who died faithful in the Angarsk prison camp during the persecution of religion.
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, 7 February (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q327411 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Petro Verhun (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.