Posted on 06/08/2021 7:42:08 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1953, Istvan Sandor was hanged in Communist Hungary.
Sandor was a printer noted as a mentor to younger Catholics — including the orphanage that shared his print-shop’s building.
When his Salesian order was suppressed in 1950, Sandor had to continue this work underground, practically inviting martyrdom. At one point his superiors in the order urged him to flee Hungary; Sandor stubbornly stuck around under an alias.
This shadow existence was bound to be a fleeting one. The Hungarian secret police kept close tabs on him, and when it found that he was in contact with a guard close to the party leadership, it made a national security case out of the affair — arresting nine of its own spooks, five priests, and several civilians....
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Unsurprisingly, Marxism frequently displays itself as a jealous ‘god’, especially against strong opponents. Hungary was/is a strongly RC Christian country, largely due to its history of being a frontier state between Steppe Barbarians (pagans), Ottoman Empire (Islam) and Russia (Eastern Orthodox). Too bad Pope Francis has gone soft here, especially with China!
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