Word: krasic
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...pale, thin man who lay dying last week behind a police guard in his native village of Krasic had never worn his cardinal's red robe. But no living prince of the Roman Catholic Church had a better right to it than Alojzije Cardinal Stepinac, 61, Roman Catholic Primate of Yugoslavia. For years, he was a silent but unforgotten symbol of the war between Communism and Christianity, but he did not come quickly to his calling. The seventh of eleven children born to a farm family, he served in the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I, was twice...
Shortly after dawn, the patient was hoisted to a crude table in his home near the Yugoslav village of Krasic. Surgeon Branislav Bogicevic examined the dangerous clot in his right leg, decided to tie off the affected vein without removing the thrombus. At week's end, Surgeon Bogicevic reported that his patient, maligned, maltreated Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac, was out of danger...
...open break with the Communists, has kept some freedom in ministering to Poland's 20 million Catholics. Stepinac. an uncompromising enemy of the Tito government, was released in 1951 after five years in jail (TIME, Dec. 17, 1951). He is now confined to his native village of Krasic. Tito has refused to let him return to his archbishopric of Zagreb, and he has refused to leave Yugoslavia. He will probably be invested in absentia...
...walk into freedom. By order of the Tito government, Archbishop Stepinac had been conditionally released, after serving five years of a 16-year sentence on a trumped-up charge of wartime collaboration with the fascists. Actually, he was on his way to a roomier internment: his native village of Krasic, where, as a government communiqué said, "the former archbishop" would have to limit himself to the duties of a simple priest...
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