[1] He was murdered by the Nazi security forces and their collaborators in Operation Winterzauber, a punitive "bandit fighting" raid, together with his parishioners.

Jury Kashyra was born in a village in the Russian Empire near Dzisna in a peasant Orthodox Belarusian family converted to Orthodoxy after the Unia, which they were derived, had been banned.

He took his vows in 1929 and was sent to study philosophy and theology in Rome at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum.

There are still a few weeks until the blessed Anthony Leszczewicz, which restored life to the parish of Rossitsa further east on the other side of the Daugava River is called to work with him.

Militia enclosed on 17 February a thousand hostages in the church of Rositsa, where they were voluntarily joined by the two priests to give them spiritual and moral comfort and let them confess.

Finally, the militia and the Nazis locked the hostages in small groups in barns, in which they threw grenades and shot with rifles.

[1] Jury Kashyra was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 13 June 1999 in Warsaw with a hundred other martyrs of the Second World War.