Alexander Nadson died

A well-known activist of Belarusian emigration and Apostolic visitator for Belarusian members abroad died at the age of 89.

Father Alexander Nadson died in London. Radio Svaboda reports referring to representatives of Belarussian diaspora in the United Kingdom. Details are unknown.

Alexander Nadson was born in the village Haradzieja near Niasvizh, Minsk region. He was ordained priest on 23 November 1958 after graduating from the University of London, the Pontifical Greek College in Rome. Since the late 1950s he has lived in London. Since 1981 has been the director of the Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and the Museum in Great Britain, and since the late 1980s, Apostolic visitator for all Belarusian Greek-Catholic faithful abroad.

Father Alexander studied Belarusian secular and spiritual literature of XVI-XVII centuries. In 1994 Vatican formally approved liturgical texts for uniat Belarusians translated by Nadson into Belarusian. Alexander Nadson was one of the first who raised the topic of Chernobyl disaster abroad.

In October 2010 Nadson arrived to Belarus at the presentation of the book "Сонца тваё не закоціцца, і месяц твой не схаваецца" (Your sun will shine and your moon will be bright), published to his 80th anniversary and 50th anniversary of his service in the Church. Original articles of 100 scientists from different countries and works of 25 writers are collected in the 620-page book. The edition includes sections on linguistics, history, archaeology, theory and history of literature, theory and history of Fransis Skaryna, folklore studies, and ethnography, as well as the sections devoted to a Belarusian diaspora, the Chernobyl disaster and history of the Church.

The presentation took place on October 21 in the Yakub Kolas Central Scientific Library of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. The Father Alexander answered to the question of BelaPAN what was the worst thing in his life: "All life was difficult. But it was necessary to win, untie these knots. It was hard to stay away from Belarus and do something for it. I left Belarus when I was under 20. Sometimes people did not understand us and our reasons. But we won, and thank God for giving us a possibility to do that".