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Our righteous father '''Maxim Sandovich''' (also ''Maximus'')of Gorlice, [[Protomartyr]] of the Lemko people, was a Carpatho-Russian [[hieromartyr]] who, in practicing his Orthodox faith as [[priest]] under the rule of the [[Unia]], as enforced by the Roman Catholic Austrian imperial government, was arrested and then executed for his faith in August 1914. His [[feast day]]s are celebrated on [[August 6]] (repose) and [[September 6]](glorification).
==Life==
Maxim Sandovich was born into the family of a prosperous farmer, Timothy Sandovich, and his wife, Christina, in the village of Zdyna, Galicia. His father served as the choir director in the local parish. After finishing four years of study at the local high school in Novy Sanch, Maxim crossed the border into Russia to become a [[novice]] at the [[Pochaev Lavra of the Dormition of the Theotokos|Pochaev Lavra]] in Volynia. Subsequently, he attended the Orthodox [[seminary]] in Zhitomir. Completing his studies he married a young Orthodox woman, Pelagia, and was [[ordination|ordained]] as a [[deacon]] and then to the [[priest]]hood before returning to his home.
It was not very long before the Austrian militia discovered his Orthodox pastoral and [[missionary]] service as he was denounced by a Ukrainian teacher by the name of Leos, in 1912. Immediately the Austrian gendarmes put Fr. Maxim in chains and sent him to prison in Lvov. There he was held for two years without a trial or inquest while being abused horribly and living in equally bad conditions. Then as World War I was to begin he was released for lack of evidence.
There is a liturgical service and an [[akathist]] hymn in his honor.
==External Linkslinks==
*[http://www.orthodoxengland.btinternet.co.uk/oecarrus.htm Orthodox Europe: Orthodox Carpatho-Russia: The People From Nowhere] which includes ''The Hieromartyr Maxim and His Age''
*[http://www.lemko.org/religion/maxim/ Holy New Hieromartyr Maximus Sandovich: His Life and Martyrdom]
*[http://www.holycross-hermitage.com/pages/Orthodox_Life/fr_maxim.htm The Persecution and Death of Fr. Maxim Sandovich: A 20th Century Carpatho-Russian Martyr for Orthodoxy]
*[http://www.comeandseeicons.com/m/zcj06.htm Icon of St. Maxim Sandovich]
*[http://www.networks-now.net/litresswraoc/LRPSandovich.htm St. Maximus Sandovich]
*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID=4&ID=1&FSID=103799 Hieromartyr Maxim Sandovich] (an [[icon]] from the [[OCA]] website)
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