Fr. Iulian Stoicescu (en)

We have the right, those of us in the “diaspora”, outside Bucharest, to consider Father Iulian as our priest. Although I have known him since before he was a priest, I will not speak about his work in Bucharest, but I would like to look at another parish that has become general and that outlines the future of tomorrow’s faithful: the prison in Aiud. And this is in order to dispel the little knowledge that our faithful have about prisons, to bring to light the role that priests in particular have played in prisons. Virgil Ierunca, in his recommendation of […]

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I met Father Iulian in Aiud… it was around ’63. We were in a transition room, in the section where people came from other prisons – there were about 80-100 of them – among them was Father Stoicescu: tall, handsome, without a beard – there they didn’t allow beards for priests – straight as a fir tree. We made friends immediately, in two or three days, when Colonel Crăciun (the Aiud prison commander, n.n.) came to visit us with the whole “staff” – majors, captains, platoons… He stopped at the door (he knew who everyone was, he had the reports): […]

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