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Sofia Ludvika Cecila Constancia Sheptytskaya (Zofia Ludwika Cecyla Konstancja Szeptycka, 27 may 1837, Lviv, Austrian Empire, German Confederation— 17 april 1904, Prylbychi (now Yavoriv Raion Lviv Oblast Ukraine)), countess, poet, painter. The mother of the Andrey Sheptytsky, O.S.B.M., the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1900-1944), and the mother of the Blessed Hieromartyr Klymentiy Sheptytsky, M.S.U., an archimandrite of the Order of Studite monks of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

Biography
Born in the family of famous Polish playwright Alexander Fredro. Received education in Paris and Vienna. In 1855, she was close to represensative of the Hôtel Lambert. In 1856-1861 lived in Lvov, in October 1861 was celebrated with Jan Kanty Szeptycki. She had seven sons, two of whom died at an early age (Stephen 2, Yuri (Iso) at the age of 17). She was an extreme religiousist which deeply influenced his sons to make a decision to serve God. Roman later became a Metropolitan, Andrey and Kazimir father Klymentiy, a Studite monk, a martyr for the Faith, died at the Gulag in May 1950. His son, Stanislav, graduated from the Vienna Military Academy, and then became a prominent general of the Polish Army. Alexander was a landowner, Lev remained with his parents in the residence of Prylbychi. Lev and his wife were shot dead by the NKVD in September 1939, in Prylbychi. Alexander died by the Gestapo in 1940, in Zamostie.

Works
Sofia Sheptitskaya was a talented painter who testifies to her father's, mother's, brother's great paintings and her self-portrait created by her, as exhibits are placed in her books. He had a great sense during occupation of religious painting, the paintings created by him decorated Polish Catholic churches in Lviv, Kraków, Zhovkva and other places. For the Bernardine Church, Lviv, she painted the portrait of John of Dukla, where the grave is buried.

Sofia Sheptytskaya is the author of a number of stories and essays writing as for her family diary. In 1900-1903 he published the book "Memories of the Past Years". In 1904, after his death, newspapers "Gazeta Narodowa" and the Krakówian "Przegląd Polski" first published separate stories from Sheptsytskaya. She wrote memoirs about Andrey Sheptytsky's teenage years. The two-volume collection of the "Letters" by Sofia Sheptytskaya was published in Kraków in 1906-1907.

She died on April 17, 1904. Buried in Prylbychi's family land.

Literature

 * Barbara Lasocka: Aleksander Fredro. Drogi życia, Oficyna Wydawnicza Errata, Warszawa 2001, ​ISBN 83-913140-4-9​.
 * Zbigniew Kuchowicz: Al. Fredro we fraku i w szlafroku. Osobowość i życie prywatne - Łódź: KAW, 1989.
 * Zofia Szeptycka: Młodość i powołanie ojca Romana Andrzeja Szeptyckiego zakonu św. Bazylego Wielkiego, oprac. Bogdan Zakrzewski, Wrocław: Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Polonistyki Wrocł., 1993.
 * Zofia Szeptycka: Wspomnienia z lat ubiegłych, przyg. do druku, wstępem i przypisami opatrzył B. Zakrzewski, Wrocław: Zakł. Nar. im. Ossolińskich, 1967.