Michaelina Hordashevska was born 20 November 1869 in Lviv, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now Ukraine, into a family who were members of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

[1] Hordashevska returned to Lviv two months later and, on 24 August 1892, took the religious habit of the new congregation and received the name Josaphata, in honor of the Ukrainian Catholic martyr Josaphat Kuntsevych.

She then went to Zhuzhelyany, and became the first Superior of the seven young women who had been recruited for the new institute, training them in the spirit and charism of the Sisters Servants: "Serve your people where the need is greatest".

Nonetheless, she was elected vicaress general of the congregation in absentia, with the delegates of the chapter petitioning the metropolitan that she be allowed to make her permanent vows.

Small parts of the relics remain in various places around Ukraine, including a monastery in the city of Lviv, located on Pasichna Street.

[4][5] On 27 June 2001, she was proclaimed Blessed by Pope John Paul II in Lviv, in a beatification ceremony during the Holy Liturgy in the Byzantine rite.