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...freedom and permit services to be resumed in the church, took possession of the rectory. But not for long. The pickets reorganized, mobilized their reserves, stormed the rectory with 100 men, beat up the "liberators," with bloody emphasis on one of them, a trustee of the church named Florian Vecellia, who took his bruises home to bed. Pickets bundled their not-unwilling Father Simon back into the rectory. Their lines reformed, they telegraphed Bishop Plagens: YOU ARE THE SOLE RESPONSIBLE PERSON FOR BLOODSHED. . . MAY GOD FORGIVE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Picketed Priest | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

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