Who invited the Basilians?
Bishop Légal (Alberta) sent Oblate Missionary Father Lacombe to beg for Ukrainian priests from the Austrian Emperor and from Metropolitan Sheptytsky. In 1902, the Basilian Order was able to release 3 priests to serve in Canada: Platonidas Filas, Sozontius Dydyk and Naucratius Kryzhanowsky. They travelled to St. Albert, Alberta and set-up their first mission at Beaver Lake (near Mundare), where there was a large concentration of Ukrainian settlers.
