Podillia residents remember their fellow-countryman, who became prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches

 09.07.2008 04:13   risu.org.ua

04.06.2008, [15:50] // ????????? ???????????? // A cardinal and prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, Wladyslaw Rubin (1917-1990), is little known in Ukraine. No books were written about him here, no TV or radio programs were made. During Soviet rule he was forgotten on purpose, and at the time of independent Ukraine, very few people are left who remember him. In his native village of Toky, Pidvolochysk District, in western Ukraine’s Ternopil Region, there still live elderly people who know at least a little about the cardinal. In the mid-war period, they were still children, but it is thanks only to them that their fellow villagers do know about their fellow countryman. Even now one can see in the village the family house where the pastor of all the Polish diaspora scattered around the globe lived. Volodymyr MOROZ reports.

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