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  • Czech Orthodox Church commemorates St. Gorazd's death under Nazis (Sheltered Heydrich's assassins)

    10/19/2007 10:15:36 PM PDT · by Terirem · 5 replies · 153+ views
    serbianna.com ^ | Tuesday, September 04, 2007 8:49 PM | Czech News Agency
    Czech Orthodox Church commemorates St. Gorazd's death under Nazis Czech News Agency Tuesday, September 04, 2007 8:49 PM Prague, Sept 4 (CTK) - The Czech Orthodox Church today held two events commemorating the 65th anniversary of the martyrdom of Bishop Gorazd, who was tortured to death by Gestapo on September 4, 1942 and declared saint in 1987. Bishop Gorazd was in charge of the St Cyril and Methodius church in Prague, in whose crypt he provided hiding to Czech parachutists after their successful attempt to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi Reichsprotector of Bohemia and Moravia, in May 1942. The parachutists died...