himself was arrested by Soviet authorities and held, first in an NKVD prison in Lviv, then in Kyiv, and finally, after his steadfast refusal to renounce his faith and serve the Moscow Patriarchate, sentenced to eight years imprisonment. Ivan Kryvytskyi described him: He died on 1 May 1951 in Vladimir Central Prison. Veneration Sheptytsky was beatified on 27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II in Lviv, during his apostolic journey to Ukraine, together with 27 other members of the Ukrainian Catholic Church previously declared Venerable. On 29 July 2011, a monument to Andrey and Klymentiy Sheptytsky was unveiled in their home village of Prylbychi. Legacy In November 2011, James Temerty, chairman of the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter Initiative (UJE) donated $1.2 million to establish three endowed chairs in Jewish Studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine. A human rights activist, who served time in Soviet prisons, Myroslav Marynovych, the vice Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, said: We have always wanted to plunge more deeply into the legacy of previous generations of ethnic Ukrainians and Jews who lived on historically Ukrainian lands. This legacy knows not only pain and injustice, but also the experience of tolerant co-existence and mutual assistance. In order to guarantee a humane outline for the future, we must not forget the former and actively the experience the latter. For example, the spiritual inheritance of the Sheptytsky brothers alone, Andrey and Klymentiy, is sufficient to reveal to the contemporary person all the beauty of the love of humanity. References External links Patron Saints Index: Blessed Clement Sheptytsky Pastor of the 20th century Klymentiy Sheptytsky at Yad Vashem website 1869 births 1951 deaths People from Lviv Oblast People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Klymentiy Ukrainian nobility 19th-century Polish nobility Polish Austro-Hungarians Ukrainian Austro-Hungarians Members of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Ukrainian priests Members of the Diet of Galicia and Lodomeria Members of the Austrian House of Deputies (1901–1907) Members of the Austrian House of Deputies (1907–1911) Ukrainian politicians before 1991 Eastern Catholic beatified people Jagiellonian University alumni Studite Brethren Ukrainian beatified people Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations Ukrainian Christian monks Ukrainian expatriates in Bosnia and Herzegovina Polish anti-fascists Catholic resistance to Nazi Germany Eastern Catholic Righteous Among the Nations Ukrainian anti-communists Ukrainian people who died in Soviet detention 20th-century venerated Christians Archimandrites 20th-century Eastern Catholic martyrs Founders of Eastern Catholic religious communities Ukrainian anti-fascists 20th-century