10 Facts About Sebastian Sabol

Sebastian Stepan Sabol joined the Basilian monastic order in 1924.

Sebastian Sabol went on to study at Mukachevo Saint Nicholas's Monastery Chernecha Hora, Mukacheve, the Krekhiv Monastery, the Lavriv Saint Onuphrius's Monastery, and the monastery in Dobromyl.

Sebastian Sabol was ordained to the priesthood in Presov in 1934 and in 1935 completed work for the licentiate of theology at the Gregorian University in Rome.

Sebastian Sabol was prefect for students at the Uzhhorod Theological Seminary and taught at a gymnasium in Uzhhorod, editing the Misionar and Blahovisnyk, monthlies for the eparchy.

Sebastian Sabol was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by a Prague court, as an "American spy, the chief leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, and an enemy of the people".

Sebastian Sabol proceeded to studies at the Gregorian University in Rome, earning a doctorate in theology in 1950.

Sebastian Sabol then emigrated to the United States where he became pastor of St John the Baptist parish in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

Sebastian Sabol later served in Bedford, Ohio, and Hamtramck, Michigan, before settling in Warren, Michigan where he remained until his death in 2003, at the age of 93.

Sebastian Sabol had served as superior of the Transcarpathian branch of the Basilians monastic order.

In 1928 Sebastian Sabol began writing poetry, using the pseudonym Zoreslav.