Sofia Ludwika Cecil Constance Sheptytska ( Polish: Zofia Ludwika Cecyla Konstancja Szeptycka , May 27, 1837 , Lviv - April 17, 1904 , Prilbichi (now Yavorivskiy district, Lviv region of Ukraine )) - countess, Polish writer, artist. Mother of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky , Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in 1900 - 1944 . and archimandrite of the UGCC Clement Sheptytsky , the blessed Catholic Church .
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Biography
Born in the family of the famous Polish playwright Count Alexander Fredro . Educated in Paris and Vienna. In 1855 it was close to the figures of the Hotel Lambert . From 1856 to 1861 she lived in Lviv. In October 1861 she was engaged to Jan Kant Sheptytsky.
In marriage with him, she gave birth to seven sons, of whom two died at an early age (Stefan at the 2nd, and Yuri (Izio) at the 17th year of life). She was deeply religious, which influenced the decision of her two sons to devote themselves to God: Roman, later Metropolitan Andrei , and Kazimir, later Father Clementius , Father Superior of the Studites, martyr for faith, died in exile in the Gulag in May 1950.
Son Stanislav graduated from a military academy in Vienna, then was an outstanding general of the Polish Army. Son Alexander was a landowner, and son Leo remained on the estate of his parents in Prilbichi. Leo and his wife were shot by the NKVD in September 1939 in their family Prylbychi. Alexander died at the hands of the Gestapo in June 1940 in Zamosc.
Creativity
Sofia Sheptitskaya was a talented artist, as evidenced by her large portraits: father, mother, brother and self-portrait, which are given as illustrations in her books. She was engaged in religious painting with great feeling, the paintings she created adorned the churches of Lviv, Krakow , Zholkva and others. She painted a portrait of St. Jan from Dukla for the Bernardine Church (Lviv), where the saint is buried.
Sofia Sheptitskaya is the author of short stories and essays written in the form of a family diary. In 1900-1903 published the book "Memoirs of the past years." In 1904, after her death, the newspaper Gazeta Narodowa and the Krakow-based Przegląd Polski first published separate stories of S. Sheptytska. She wrote memories of the youth of Andrei Sheptytsky.
A two-volume collection of her Letters was published in Krakow in 1906-1907.
Died April 17, 1904 and was buried in a family estate in Prilbichi.
See also
- Sheptytsky
Links
- Lyudvika Selina Constance Sofiya Oleksandr Fredro (Sheptytska ) (Ukrainian)
- SOFIA Z FREDRIV ABOUT ITS SINA ANDREY (inaccessible link) (in Ukrainian)