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- Walter Joseph Ciszek, S.J. (November 4, 1904 – December 8, 1984) was a Polish-American Jesuit priest of the Russian Greek Catholic Church who clandestinely conducted missionary work in the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1963.
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Walter Joseph Ciszek, S.J. (November 4, 1904 – December 8, 1984) was a Polish-American Jesuit priest of the Russian Greek Catholic Church who clandestinely conducted missionary work in the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1963.
Fr. Walter Ciszek, SJ, was a U.S. Jesuit missionary who was imprisoned for more than 20 years in the Soviet Union. Fr. Walter Ciszek's life sound like a movie: An American Jesuit priest ministering in Eastern Europe around the time of WWII, he was arrested by the Soviet Union and falsely accused of being a Vatican spy.
2 days ago · Jesuit Father Walter Ciszek (1904-84) was an American priest who traveled to the Soviet Union as a missionary, was arrested and imprisoned for 15 years in solitary confinement and labor camps, and spent another eight years there with restricted freedom.
On Oct. 12, 1963, American-born Jesuit Father Walter Ciszek (1904-1984) arrived in New York after 23 years in Russia, much of it spent in captivity in Siberian labor camps and Soviet prisons.
A devoted and prominent parishioner, who had been married for many years and who had raised his children in the church, had gone through with his plan to have a sex change operation. The entire congregation was shocked, horrified and scandalized, although not particularly surprised.
Jun 8, 2017 · Father Ciszek had been presumed dead, since no one (neither his family nor the Jesuits) had heard from him since 1945. The story of his return was a sensation, picked up by the press.
Nov 1, 2017 · The horrors of life in the Gulag became the day to day experiences of Walter Ciszek, who was imprisoned and sentenced to hard labour in Siberia. Living in the Soviet Union for more than two decades, Ciszek never let the oppression and persecution to which he was subjected dull his zeal for carrying out his work as missionary.
