Maria Beruski
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Maria Aparecida Beruski, also known as Berushko[note 1][1] (c. 1959 – 4 April 1986), was a school teacher who died saving her students in a school fire in Brazil. She may become the first Orthodox saint in Latin America.[2]
Maria, being of Ukrainian descent, was born in 1959, in Joaquim Távora, Paraná, Brazil.
When a school caught fire in 1986, Maria refused a chance to leave the building, instead she stayed inside and assisted her pupils in escaping. Beruski assisted in saving the lives of 5 children, but 8 children died together with the teacher in the fire.
In 2007, the Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Latin America placed the issue of Maria's glorification to the Ecumenical Patriarchate.[3] It was expected the final decision to be made within three years, but the Patriarchate later discarded the glorification.
A street in the Brazilian town of Curitiba has already been named after Beruski (Rua Maria Aparecida Beruski).
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