Eduard Masichievici (en)

“Go and die in your faith, you bandit!”

Another seriously ill student, Eduard Masichievici, to whom the family had sent special medicine (streptomycin), was summoned by Sleam, who made their release conditional on politically motivated information. If he accepted, he would receive the life-saving package immediately. Masichievici indignantly refused[1]. – Then go and die in your faith, you bandit!… and Masichevici returned and died in his faith. Perhaps some would be inclined to say that he could have formally accepted the role of informer and, when he was restored to health, broken his promise. With bandits, you behave like a bandit and there’s no need for scruples. But […]

Eduard Masichievici – “he was like an angel, a handsome individual, a bright face”

It was a great sorrow among us that we could still see that he was dying. Masichievici’s turn came. I was in the room with Cezar Tănase, and in the meantime something had happened. The political officer called Masichievici and said: – Hey, see the medicine? How did your people find out you were here, how did you communicate? – I don’t know, sir, I didn’t communicate, I don’t have a postcard, I didn’t talk to anybody. – Hey, you’re a bandit, tell us how you communicated? Look, you got your medicine in there, you tell me what’s going on […]

Eduard Masichievici, a young student of great purity

A young student, Eduard Masichievici, of great purity, who was dying, asked for his candle to be lit. But when he awoke from a short sleep, he asked to blow out the wick of the candle, which was to go to others, and said that he had seen the Saviour, who said to him, “I will not take you tonight”. He called him the next night. (Fr. Constantin Voicescu – Father Voicescu, a Confessor of the City, edited by Ioana Iancovinescu, Byzantine Publishing House, Bucharest, 2002)