Jazep Hermanovich

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Jazep Hiermanovich

MIC
Hiermanovich in 1932
Native name
Язэп Германовіч
ChurchBelarusian Greek Catholic Church
Personal details
Born(1890-03-04)4 March 1890
Halshany, Russian Empire (now Belarus)
Died26 December 1978(1978-12-26) (aged 88)
London, United Kingdom
Writing career
Pen nameVincuk Advažny
GenrePoetry

Jazep Hiermanovich (also Yazep Germanovich, Belarusian Latin alphabet: Jazep Hermanovič; Belarusian: Язэп Германовіч; Polish: Józef Hermanowicz, 4 March 1890 - 26 December 1978) was a Belarusian Greek Catholic priest, poet and Gulag survivor.

Early life

Hermanovich was born in

Ashmiany
.

In 1913, he graduated from a Catholic seminary in Vilnius and was ordained priest.

Work in West Belarus

In 1921, he became a member of the

Church of St. Nicholas in Vilnius (then Wilno).[1]

In 1924, Hermanovich joined the

Belarusian Catholics
in interwar Poland.

While in Druja, Hermanovich started publishing his literary works under the pseudonym Vincuk Advažny (Vincuk the Brave).

Missionary work in Harbin, Gulag captivity

In 1932, Hermanovich was sent to Harbin, China, to do missionary work among the community of Harbin Russians with the Russian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Harbin.[2] He was head of the Catholic Lyceum of St Nicolas in Harbin, taking care of Russian orphans who lost their parents in the Russian Civil War.[3]

In 1936, Hermanovich returned to Poland because of health reasons.[3] In 1938, he and other Belarusian Marian fathers were deported from Druja to central Poland as part of a wave of repressions by the Polish state against Belarusian national activists.[3] After this, Hermanovich returned to Harbin.[3]

In 1948, Hermanovich was arrested by the communist Chinese authorities and handed over to the

Soviet NKVD. After several months of interrogations and tortures, Hermanovich and other teachers of the Marian lyceum of Harbin were sentenced to 25 years of incarceration and labour in the Gulag concentration camps. Hermanovich was deported to concentration camps near Tayshet and then near Bratsk.[4] While in the Gulag, Hermanovich held secret religious services among other inmates.[4]

Emigration to the United Kingdom

After

Leo Haroshka, Alexander Nadson
and others) who had settled there after the Second World War.

Since 1960, Father Hermanovich resided at the Marian House in North Finchley, London, until his death on 26 December 1978. He is buried at

Book of Psalms
.

See also

External links

Literary works

Cover of a storybook by Jazep Hermanovich (Vincuk Advažny) published in London in 1973
  • Як Казюк сабраўся да споведзі (How Kaziuk prepared for the confession), Vilnius, 1928; Minsk, 2011
  • Казюковае жанімства (Kaziuk’s wedding), Vilnius, 1929
  • Як Гануля зьбіралася ў Аргентыну (How Hanula prepared to go to Argentina), Vilnius, 1930.
  • Адам і Анелька (Adam and Anelka), Vilnius, 1931
  • Канёк-Гарбунок (The Little Humpbacked Horse, adaptation of the tale by Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov), Vilnius, 1932.
  • Бэтлейка (The
    batleyka
    ), Vilnius, 1932.
  • Унія на Палесьсі (The Church Union in Polesia), Albercin, 1932; Brest, 2004
  • Беларускія цымбалы (The Belarusian cymbalo), Vilnius, 1933
  • Казка аб рыбаку і рыбцы (The tale of the fisher and the fish), Vilnius, 1935.
  • Хлапец (The boy), Vilnius, 1935.
  • Гануліны клопаты (Hanula’s worries), Vilnius, 1935.
  • Кітай-Сібір-Масква (China - Siberia - Moscow (memories)), Munich, 1962; Minsk-St. Petersburg, 2003
    ISBN 5-94716-033-1
  • Пакутныя псальмы (Penitential Psalms, versed translation), Rome, 1964.
  • Przeżyłem sowieckie łagry. Wspomnienia (I survived the Soviet concentration camps. Memoirs), 1966
  • Князь і лапаць. Сучасная казка (The king and the bast shoe), London, 1964.
  • Байкі і іншыя вершы (Fables and other verses), London, 1973.
  • Выбраныя творы (Selected Works), Minsk, 2011

References

  1. Sovetskaya Belorussiya – Belarus' Segodnya
    , 11 May 2015. Quote: The site of St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church, built in the early 16th century. From 1901-1939, it was the only church in Vilnya where sermons were read in Lithuanian. From 1901-1906, its priest was Juozapas Kukta. The building kept a secret collection of editions published by Martin Kukhta’s publishing house. From 1921, services were offered each Sunday at 10am, with Belarusian language sermons. Until 1940, priest Adam Stankevich served there and, in the 1920s, its priests included Konstantin Stepovich (Kazimir Svayak), Wincenty Godlewski and Yazep Germanovich.
  2. ^ Marianie w Harbinie (1928-1948) [The Marian fathers in Harbin] - official website of the Marian Congregation
  3. ^
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Minsk-Mohilev
    ], №3/2010
  4. ^ a b Biography on the website of the Marian Congregation (in Polish)
  5. ^ 39 гадоў таму памёр Язэп Германовіч [Yazep Hermanovich Died 39 Years Ago] - official website of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, 26 December 2017
  6. ^ "Эміграцыйная гісторыя ў асобах. 26 снежня. Язэп Германовіч". 26 December 2012.
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