Word: sarmatiuk
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...such Uniat sect, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, two friends began laboring years ago. Nicholas Shumsky and Andrew Sarmatiuk took wives, each performing a marriage ceremony for the other. They went to Canada, a mission field of their church. Father Sarmatiuk begat two children. Used as they were to married priests in the old country, the Ukrainians whom they shepherded saw nothing unusual about the status of the two fathers. But Mother Church did. In her ponderous, methodical way she discovered that the marriages, respectively 20 and 14 years old, were invalid. Fathers Shumsky and Sarmatiuk had broken the rules...
Husbands Shumsky and Sarmatiuk declined to give up their families. Mr. & Mrs. Shumsky took themselves off to a farm. Mr. Sarmatiuk said he was pondering going on relief. Commented sympathetic Ukrainian neighbors: "Poverty in the priesthood has less appeal than lay poverty, with a family for company...