Fr. Ion Drăgoi – the priest who paid with his life for the defence of the anti-communist fighters in the mountains
My father, I must tell you about him, was originally from the commune of Vâlsănești. He attended the seminary in Bucharest and the Faculty of Theology, also in Bucharest. (…) He married my mother in 1926 and at the end of 1926 he took over the parish here. With salary, without salary… In 1946, when those purges took place, he was dismissed from the service and did his church work without receiving any money, because here, unlike elsewhere, the priest has no great advantages. My father worked his ass off here and now we have nothing from him, because the […]