Fr. Ilie Lăcătușu (en)

Father Ilie Lăcătușu was born on 6 December 1909 in the village of Crăpăturile, Vâlcea County. Father Ilie was 74 years old and went to meep the Lord on 22 July 1983. Ilie Lăcătușu was a priest who served during the great period of Christian persecution, during the communist era, for his life and deeds he was accused by the regime and imprisoned as a political prisoner. Fr. Ilie Lăcătușu was born into a family of seven children. His parents, Marin and Maria, were simple people with great faith in God. His father was a church teacher, which led the […]

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– Father Ioan, tell us a few words about Father Ilie Lăcătușu, whose whole and blessed relics were found in Bucharest a few years ago… – Having heard about Father Ilie Lăcătușu from someone in Bucharest, who said that the priest spoke and worked miracles, out of curiosity I went to a friend who had a car and took me to the cemetery. I didn’t know Bucharest and I didn’t know where to go. And God wanted the daughter of Father Ilie Lăcătușu to come to the cemetery, even though she hadn’t been there for two or three days. I […]

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I spent 4 years with Father Ilie Lăcătușu in Periprava, in the Delta. He was generally known for his great interiority and silence; you rarely heard him say anything, and when he did, what he said was very important, often urging us to pray when we were in some danger. About this man I can say that he truly had the gift of humility. He was always trying to be unobtrusive, to be perceived as unimportant.

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While I was waiting for the “tutor”, a gentleman came up to me and said: “Mr Emanoil Pindu! Long before I was arrested, I hid a piece of Holy Communion in the hem of my shirt sleeve (it was Monday, the first day of Holy Week). Prepare yourselves, because on Saturday, the Holy Resurrection, I will give it to you”. Of course I had to ask him: how does he know who I am, because I could have put my hand in the fire that I had never seen him in my life. And secondly, how does he know where […]

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All the signs speak for the holiness of Father Ilie, the popular devotion and piety that his relics arouse in the people, the continuation of the holy se that he did even in life, they work to increase the faith of the people and glorify God through them with a power thousands of times greater than when the Saint was alive. There are so many good priests who, in their lives, worked for the holiness of their parishioners, many of whom suffered or died in prisons. Who remembers them? Only their families and friends. In Father Ilie Lăcătușu, God put […]

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