Fr. Ion Drăgoi (en)

Father Ion Drăgoi, killed for the “Arnăuțoiu gang”

Ion Drăgoi was born on 20 October 1900 in Vâlsănești Commune, Argeș County. After primary school, he attended the second class of the Theological Seminary, graduating in 1923. On 15 December 1925, Ion Drăgoi was ordained a priest, and on 20 December 1926 he was assigned to the parish of Nucșoara, Muscel County, in place of the deceased priest Pompiliu Dragomirescu. At the same time he was to attend the Faculty of Theology in Bucharest[1]. He was one of the most prominent intellectuals of Nucșoara and contributed much to the education of the villagers. He had four sons. In 1940, […]

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 […]