Pitești

My man

... and how he would have given up anything to go back to Pitesti.

And so there's definitely that idea, so I love it.

Yes.

Yeah, Pitesti was a curious thing.

Father Roman was my spiritual father for twenty-three years and literally saved my soul at one point.

And I know there toward the end of his life, he actually remembered at the Proskomedia the names of his torturers, which still just wows me every time I think about it.

That's fair.

Awful, complete, universal and pitiless.

the devil is jealous and becomes enraged at spiritual beauty it offends him since he cannot be beautiful he lost his primal beauty because of his pride he does not want anyone else to be if it were not for the saint's spiritual beauty the devil would not seem so ugly therefore he wishes to deface all beauty This is why Christians in the Romanian communist prison of Pitești, as well as other communist jails, were tortured, not only to betray the secrets of the underground church, but to blaspheme.

Regimes under which such horrors occur again and again, regimes that turn even Christians into murderers and denouncers of innocent victims, can only be abhorred by the children of God.

Whoever bids them Godspeed is a partaker in their evil deeds.

It was called Baphomet.

At night, Satanists would gather in the museum for prayer and chanting before the statue.

Religious obscenities It might be in some sense logical that communists would arrest priests and pastors as counter-revolutionaries, but why were priests compelled by the Marxists in the Romanian prison of Pitești to say mass over excrement and urine? Why were Christians tortured into taking communion with these as the elements? Why such an obscene mockery of religion? Why did the Romanian Orthodox priest, Roman Braga, whom I knew personally when he was a prisoner of the Communists and who presently resides in the USA, have his teeth knocked out one by one with an iron rod in order to make him blaspheme? The Communists had explained to him and others, If we kill you Christians, you go to heaven, but we don't want you to be crowned martyrs.

You should curse God first and then go to hell.