The theologian Ioan Hornea in the communist dungeon
He was born on 15 December 1929 to a peasant family in the town of Șeitin, in the province of Arad. After primary school, the young Hornea attended the commercial high school in Arad. On 5 June 1948, he was arrested by the communist security forces during a round-up of theological students and pupils from several schools in Arad. The repression, orchestrated by the Party and carried out by the Arad Security Service, was part of a wider context and was also the result of MIA Decree No. 5 of 15 May 1948, which provided for the preventive arrest of […]