Fr. Alexandru Mazilu (en)

Note on the situation of the priest Alexandru Mazilu

Dofteana Commune Town Hall Bacău County No. 237 / 12 March 1990 Note on relations Dofteana Commune Town Hall, Bacău County, is aware of the situation of the priest Alexandru Mazilu, who died on 5 October 1978, of the consequences suffered by him and his family as a result of the communist persecution, of the fact that he was treated as a political prisoner, and confirms what is stated in the memoirs of Prof. Sivoglio Nicolae, associating itself with the idea of his moral rehabilitation. Mayor, Ing. Mihai Lăzărescu Secretary, Ion Păscălin From October 1944 to October 1978, from the […]

Father Alexandru Mazilu, martyr for Christ during the communist regime

We have very little information about this priest, details only becoming available after 1944, when he experienced communist persecution. In October 1944 he was taken from his home and sent to Tg. Ocna, Bacău County, without explanation. From there, in January 1945, he was transferred without trial to the Bacău prison, to be released at the end of the year. After his release, he was closely monitored by the Security and Gendarmerie. In 1948 he was arrested again and sent to Bacău prison, only to be released after several months of investigation and torture. But not for long, because on […]

Letter of Priestess Alexandrina Mazilu on the sufferings of Priest Alexandru Mazilu

President of the Association of Former Political Prisoners and Victims of the Dictatorship The undersigned Alexandrina Mazilu, resident of Dofteana commune, Dofteana county. Bacău, I bring the following to your attention: My husband, priest Alexandru Mazilu, born on 13 December 1909, in com. Asău, Bacău County, who died on 5 October 1978, suffered the rigours of the Communist regime as a political prisoner, through no fault of his own. He was arrested in October 1944 and sent to Tg. Ocna, Bacău County, after which he was transferred to the Bacău prison in January 1945. He has never been tried. There […]

“I was deeply impressed by his piousness, his kindness of heart”

I, Sivoglo Neculai, teacher of Romanian language and literature at the Dofteana School, Dofteana commune, Bacău county, after the revolution of December 1989, bring to your attention the following injustice and persecution perpetrated by the dictatorship, which tragically affected the fate of a good man. What is it about? When I came to teach in the commune of Dofteana, I had the opportunity to meet the priest Alexandru Mazilu, who worked in the Orthodox parish of Dofteana. I was deeply impressed by his piety, his kindness of heart, his constant desire to help the needy in the parish, and I […]