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== Biography ==
Vasiľ Vaňko was born in rusyn family near the village of [[w:Šemetkovce|Šemetkovce]] the Carpathian Mountains in [[w:Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovakia]], in what is today Eastern Slovakia.
At a young age, he became a novice at the Orthodox Monastery of Job in [[w:Ladomirová|Ladomirová]], and in 1944 moved along with the brethren to [[Jordanville|Jordanville]] when the Red Army descended on the Monastery.
