Anicet Hryciuk — what a name!
[d. 1874]
The remains of the 13 Podlachian martyrs are buried in a single coffin in the small farming village of Pratulin, in eastern Poland. Anicet and the others were collectively murdered outside their own church, which the tsar had ordered to be converted to Russian Orthodox. Hundreds of worshippers crowded around the building in order to resist, fighting Cossack rifles and bayonets with stones and sticks. The 13 dead were buried nearby, and the Russians stomped all over the ground on the grave in order to obscure it. The locals still remembered.