A martyred hierarch
It was the late winter of 1949. I don’t know if it was a stormy winter, but it was certainly bleak. The faith was in mortal danger. Its disappearance was being relentlessly pursued. The Church, a solid institution of the past, stood in the way of the ‘new times’. The atheist persecution also targeted Orthodoxy, the ancestral faith of the Romanians. The new atheist regime wanted to silence and enslave the altar servants. Priests and hierarchs rose up against this seemingly uncontrollable trend, some of whom paid for their courage with their lives. Among them was Bishop Gregory Leu, who […]