The Bishop Who Starved to Death in Communist Prison • Blessed Ioan Suciu

Ioan Suciu was a Romanian Greek Catholic bishop who had a particular love for young people. He started a religious magazine for the young and wrote many of the articles himself. He became know as the bishop of the youth. He experienced persecution under Communism and was arrested in 1948. He was imprisoned with Tit Liviu Chinezu, Iuliu Hossu, and other Greek Catholic bishops. He died in 1953. He was beatified in 2019 and his feast day is June 23.