Jury Kashyra
Belarusian Roman Catholic priest
Died when: 38 years 320 days (466 months)Star Sign: Aries
Jury Kashyra (April 4, 1904 – February 18, 1943), was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and a Belarusian apostle of the unity between Catholic and Orthodox Christians.
He was murdered by the German security forces and their collaborators in Operation Winterzauber, a punitive "bandit fighting" raid, together with his parishioners.
Kashyra was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1999 together with the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs.
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