Fr. Diodor Todea (en)

Diodor Todea was born on 13 March 1906 in Arieșenii Albei into a family of hard workers. After finishing primary school in Abrud in 1915, he attended “Iosif Vulcan” grammar school in Beiuș until 1923. He then enrolled at the Theological Academy in Oradea and at the Faculty of Law in Cluj. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1927 and from the Theological Academy in Cluj a year later. For the first two years he was a teacher of religion in secondary schools in Sighet, and between 1930 and 1931 in primary schools in Alba Iulia. In 1933 […]

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Theodoris had a man who used to carry the excrement from the camp in his sack and dump it in a huge pit in the field. By chance, the man who did this dastardly work was a monk from Scărișoara (Gîrda), Apuseni Mountains, Ioan Pașca. He had a sister who was a teacher in Turda and we knew each other very well from outside, through our parents. The man had been imprisoned with the local Orthodox priest, Diodor Todea, an admirable acolyte and a wonderful man. Both had been badly beaten by the guards after being ill with tuberculosis. Father […]

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