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John Kuntsevich (whose family name is also found as Kuncevic, Kuncevyc and Kuntsevych) was born of a merchant family in the small town of Volodymyr (Vladimir) in the region of Volhynia (Vilna), then part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, about 1580.
After a local education, he was apprenticed to a merchant in Vilna. In 1604, at the age of twenty-four, John entered the Monastery of the Trinity of the Basilian Fathers in Vilnius, and it is here that he took the name Josaphat. His religious devotion, charity and sanctity rapidly became known, and prominent people came to consult him. About the same time, after a distinguished life as a layman, a certain Benjamin Rutski also joined the order. The number of novices steadily increased under Rutski, who had meanwhile been ordained priest.
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Martin, who became one of the most popular saints in medieval Europe, was born in 316 in Savaria, Pannonia (now Szombathely, Hungary). His father was a tribune (senior officer) in the Imperial Horse Guard, a unit of the Roman army. He was stationed at Ticimum, Cisalpine Gaul (now Pavia in … Continue