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16 March 2021

Eastern Rite - Blessed Iuliu Hossu

Today is the Feast of Ss Sabinus and Papas, Martyrs, Egyptians, were thrown into the River Nile A.D. 296 in the persecution under Diocletian, of St Julian, Martyr, died A.D. 298 in the reign of Maximian, Emperor, and of St Alexander, Priest-Martyr, Pope of Rome, passed away about A.D. 119 under Hadrian, Emperor.
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Blessed Iuliu was born 30 January 1885 in Milas, Bistrita-Nasaud, archdiocese of Fagaras e Alba Julia, Kingdom of Hungary (now Romania), the son of Ioan Hossu and Victoria Mariutiu, Bld Iuliu studied at the Seminary of Cluj in the Kingdom of Hungary (now Romania), the seminary of Budapest, the University of Vienna, in the Empire of Austria, and the Pontifical Urbanian Athenaeum “De Propaganda Fide,” in Rome. He earned a doctorate in philosophy in 1906, and one in theology in 1908. e was ordained Priest for the archdiocese of Fagaras si Alba Iulia, Romania on 27 March 1910; the ordination was performed by his uncle, Bishop Vasile (Hossu). From 1911 to 1914 he served variously as protocolist, archivist, librarian, vicar-general and secretary to the Bishop of Gherla, Kingdom of Hungary. He was a chaplain to the Romanian soldiers in the Austro-Hungarian Army during the Great War from 1914 to 1917. He was chosen Bishop of Cluj-Gherla, Romania by Pope Benedict XV on 21 April 1917. Appointed Apostolic Administrator of Maramures, Romania from 19 July 1930 till 31 January 1931, Apostolic Administrator of Oradea Mare, Romania from 29 August 1941 till 1947. For opposing the Red government's ordered separation of the Byzantine-Rumanian Church from Rome, he was incarcerated in prisons in the Romanian cities of Jilava, Drogoslavele, Sighet, and Gherla from 1948 till 1964, and then at the monastery of Caldrusani in Moara Saraca near Bucharest, from 1964 until his health began to fail in 1970 when he was moved to hospital. Secretly elevated to Cardinal by Pope Paul VI on 28 April 1969, but to prevent additional abuse, this was was not revealed until after the Cardinals‘ death. 

Born
30 January 1885 in Milas, Bistrita-Nasaud, archdiocese of Fagaras e Alba Julia, Kingdom of Hungary (now Romania)

Died
9 a.m. on 28 May 1970 at Coletina Hospital in Bucharest, Romania
buried in the Bellu Catholic Cemetery, Bucharest, re-interred in his permanent tomb in the the same cemetery on 7 December 1982

Venerated
19 March 2019 by Pope Francis (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified
2 June 2019 by Pope Francis
the beatification recognition was celebrated at the Câmpia Libertății in Blaj, Romania

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