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- page three a Soviet concentration camp in OrinineBishop Aaron Marton of Alba Julia (Transsylvania) died in prison after having been cruelly tortured. Bishop Augustin Pacha of Timisoara (Transsylvania), 81 years old, was sentence in 1950 to 18 years imprisonment. First he was taken to a MAI camp in Fagaras, where he was detained in a large barrack, together with 200 other prisoners, mostly priests and faithful of his diocesée During the day, the aged bishop was forced to work with ail the other prisoners; every night he was kept awake for long hours of interrogation After one of these "hearings", he had to be taken to the camp hoppital in the morning, with a broken nose and his face bruised and swollen in a way that he was hardly recognisablee He recovered however and was transferred into a labor camp on the Danube-Black Sea chanel project, 3 a camp famous for its ill-treatment, poor nourishment and hard works A Here the heroic bishop died of an "accident" in october 1951. Bishop John Scheffler of Satu Mare (Transsylvania) was first expelled from his diocese, then jailed. Detained in the prison of Aiud, he died in January of 1951. - His Vicar General, Monsignore Francis Pasztor, was deported to forced labor. It was impossible to retrace his further fatee Greek rite: Bishop John Balan of Lugoj (Transsylvania) was jailed, sentenced and finally executed in the Vacaresti prisonse Bishop Valerian Trajan Frentiu of Oradea (Transsylvania) was sentenced to prison and according £0 Latest reports is said to have died in confinement. - | Bishop Julius Hossu of Cluj (Transsylvania) was deported to Russia where at last news, he was working in a coal mines Russia, was reported to be working in a plane factory in Osipenko, a near the Sea of Asowe — 3 Bishop John Suciu, Apo&Golic Administrator of gaggxa Fagaras and Alba- . Julia (Transsylvania) was, like Bishop Scheffler, emprisoned in Aiud, where they both diede - his Auxiliary, Bishop Basil Aftenie, died in prison as consequances of maltraatmentse Warmaros, the Monsignores Mohn Ploscariu and Louis Vida, are both emprisoned. No further news could be obtained on whether they are still alive or note These cruel deeds of persecution are backed by a heavy propaganda campaigne 411 those Churches who have ties outside of the Moscow world are being pictured as thegreatest enemies of the people, to be eliminated in communistic self-defense. - At the end of lay thus a great exhibition was opened in Bucharest under Soviet Russian patronag This exhibitaon, a large scale atheistic demonstra-tion, was to show the fight against "mysticism and religious practices", A huge press campaign had prepared the event; sj)ccial reauced fares were given on Rumanian 4 railways to all passengers for Bucharest, bou:.d to visit the osu tási Personnel of entire factories, headed by their communist group leaders, (vall
