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RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FAITH - Doors Open. Shrine of Blessed Martyr Velychkovsky participating in Doors Open Winnipeg Subjects: Father John Sianchuk, CSsR. at Shrine of Blessed Martyr Velychkovsky. Father John Sianchuk stands next to his coffin in shrine. More info: Blessed Bishop and Martyr Vasyl Velychkovsky, C.Ss.R. was beatified in 2001 by St. Pope John Paul II. His holy relics (a fully intact body) are enshrined in a shrine chapel at St. Josephs Ukrainian Catholic Church in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The Shrine Chapel contains the holy relics, a fully intact body, of Blessed Martyr Vasyl Velychkovsky. The chapel was constructed in 2002, designed by a local architect, Ben Wasylyshen. It is filled with symbolism and artwork which help the pilgrim enter into an atmosphere of prayer and into the presence of the holy. See Brenda Suderman story. May 8, 2019
