If we have God, we will not collapse from the pain of this world - Fr. George Calciu. A Romanian confessor.

He beat me to a pulp. I no longer knew how to read, I didn't recognize the letters, I even forgot the "Our Father." Without any intellectual effort, I felt the Jesus prayer faintly glowing from my heart. In that despair, I promised God that when I got out of prison, I would become a priest. The other prisoners considered me an angel... yes, an angel. Yes, but a fallen angel.

I think that many times, due to terror and fear, our hearts had given the devil the upper hand. But in the end, God brought us all back. He gave us every opportunity to fight the last battle. Because the last battle was not in Pitesti. The last battle was in our hearts when we left Pitesti. And in the hearts of most, God won the last battle.

The shocking, martyrdom-filled life of Fr. George Calciu, the modern Romanian confessor (1925-2006). The events of the life of a priest who was relentlessly persecuted by the atheistic regime and through his life showed that, having God close to him, he did not collapse from the pain of this world.