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The Greek Catholic parish of the Holy Martyr Josaphat in Polotsk has published a book by Leonid Lavresh “Perseverance in faith, courage in trials: Life and memories of Belarusian Uniates during the liquidation of the union”.
The heroes of the book are people who lived in the era of religious conversion in the 1830s, when the confessional face of Belarus was radically changed. Through the author's essays about the fates of these people, their memories and the language of official documents, Leonid Lavresh tells about the events before, during and after the liquidation of the church Union in our lands. But the main emphasis in this book is not on events, but on human unrest, actions and positions in that “unifying” wretchedness. Two camps pass before us. These are those who made a career out of the liquidation of the Uniate Church. And those who retained their devotion to the faith of their grandfathers did not betray their principles, beliefs, and ultimately, their religious oath. Much has been written about that era of religious conversion of Belarus and its main figures, starting with the historiography of Western Russism and its ideologist Michal Kajalovitch, and it seems well known to us. But with each of his biographical sketches, Leonid Lavresh places new accents in our knowledge, stirs up questions that have not been resolved by science, and even opens completely new pages of history and the names of its heroes, completely unknown to science. And all because he approaches this history not from the traditional position of Russian-Soviet historiography or an apology for the “liquidators” of the Church Union. He writes the history of those who rose to defend their Church and thus challenged the imperial policy of its suppression…
