Maxim Sandovich

Maxim Sandovich
Born	1 February 1888, Zdynia, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary
Died	6 August 1914, Gorlice
Martyred by	Dietrich from Linz, for the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Means of martyrdom	firing squad
Venerated in	Eastern Orthodoxy
Canonized	September 6, 1994, Gorlice, by Polish Orthodox Church
Major shrine	New Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity, Gorlice
Feast	September 6 (Old Calendar)
Patronage	Lemkos

Maxim Sandovich is a New Martyr and Orthodox saint. He is the protomartyr of the Lemko people. He was trained as an Orthodox priest, and was executed by the officially Catholic state of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a Russophile after his conversion to the Orthodox Church. After his execution, his wife was imprisoned in Talerhof, where his son, also named Maxim Sandovich, was born.

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