Few men alive have suffered more for their God and their convictions than Josef Cardinal Mindszenty. 71. Archbishop of Esztergom and Roman Catholic Primate of Hungary. During World War II, he was jailed by the Nazis for protesting against the roundup of Hungary's Jews. After the war. he fought the Communist takeover of his country, and in 1949 was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment on trumped-up charges of treason, espionage and black marketing. The Western world bled for the gaunt, tortured prelate, mechanically confessing his guilt for nonexistent crimes before an unfeeling judge. Briefly freed by the 1956...
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