Basilian Sr. Viktoriia Estera Kozun

Viktoriia Estera Kozun

Viktoriia Estera Kozun is a Sister of the Order of St. Basil the Great from Ternopil, Ukraine. In 2016, after completing a degree in philology and qualifications to teach German language and world literature, she entered the monastery of the Holy Trinity Province of the Basilian Sisters in Ukraine. In earlier ministry, she worked as an educator and catechist in Yavoriv in the Lviv region, and as a secretary in the Episcopal Curia of the Donetsk Exarchate. Now she is a catechist and educator in a kindergarten in Perechyn in the Transcarpathia region.

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On April 25, 2022, the first day after Easter, a rainbow appears over the house where the Basilian sisters were sheltering about 30 refugees at the Transfiguration Monastery in Beregy in the Lviv region of Ukraine. (Courtesy of Sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great)

Through the cross to the Resurrection: Experiencing a year of war in Ukraine

Even though a year has passed since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the war has not stopped for a single day, not for a single hour. A Ukrainian Basilian sister tells her story.