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Catholic priests. The first one is already over: death penalty for a diocesan priest of the Latin rite. Tomorrow it will be the trial of a diocesan priest of the Slavonic rite, in Sofia; the day after tomorrow, that of a Capuchin. And these will not be the last ones, surely. May God’s will be done." One month later he, too, was imprisoned.
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A month before his arrest in July 1952, he wrote to the
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and France, and were accused of spying for the French government. After what international organizations universally considered a show trial, which began on 29 September 1952, and ended with a guilty verdict and a death sentence on 3 October, the three, together with the
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Communist regime. Often he risked personal safety by defending the rights of the Church in public and visiting political prisoners.
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