Mircea Mârza, the orphan-loving martyr
Mircea Mârza was a boy from Sibiu. He was the son of a retired general and (it is said) of a German noblewoman. At the time of his arrest, he had just graduated from the Naval High School in Constanța as class valedictorian. He was tall, well-proportioned and angelically handsome. Nelu Duca and I would stop for a walk – often – and look at him, marvelling at how generous nature had been in bringing this boy into the world. Nature, yes, was generous, but, as you will see, not the fortune tellers…