Father Nicolae Pogan under the communist persecution
In our “Remembering the Church” column, we have looked at some of the books that deal with the issue of clergy imprisoned during the communist period. Our research in the Securitate archives has shown that many clergy are not even mentioned in these volumes. One of them is Father Nicolae Pogan from Vrancea. He was born on 11 February 1906 in the family of Ioan Pogan, a farmer from Bârsești, Putna County. After primary school, which was interrupted by the First World War between 1916 and 1918, the young Nicolae Pogan entered the St. George Seminary in Roman, where he […]