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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1 February 1888 Zdynia, Galicia (Eastern Europe)
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Died |
6 August 1914 (aged 26)
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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