Priest Ioan Hornea from Arad in the Communist Prisons and His Confession
Priest Ioan Hornea from Arad in the Communist Prisons and His Confession

Summary/Abstract: The present study presents the biography of the confessor Ioan Hornea from Aradregion, who suffered for Christ in the communist prisons during his theologicalformation. The martyrdom of Father Ioan Hornea continued after his return fromdetention, when although ordained a priest and fi nally settled in several parishesof our diocese, he did not escape the attention of Securitate organs. Thus, he wasconstantly searched at home, intimidated, and summoned to hearings togetherwith his presbytera. Despite this continuous terror, Father Ioan Hornea had thecourage to confess Christ all the way in an atheistic world. After the establishmentof religious freedom in Romania, since 1989 a new period of Father Ioan Hornea’sexistence begins: he kept on serving and preaching Christ all along, on making theChristian education of the youth in schools and high-schools, on caring for “OasteaDomnului” (The Army of the Lord) movement in Arad region, which he was a truefather to, on getting involved in the social work by regular religious assistance at thehospitals and the orphanages from Arad. Through this contribution, we wanted topay homage to Father Ioan Hornea, the spiritual father and missionary, the sufferingand the shepherd, the prayer and the accomplice of love for God and his fellow

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