RESTRICTIONS ON CHURCHMEN
Cardinal Griffin Calls For Prayer (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, March 22. Many Czechs were in the congregation in Westminster Cathedral yesterday when the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Griffin, presided at Solemn High Mass offered for Archbishop Beran, Primate of Czechoslovakia, and for the persecuted Church ih that country. Cardinal Griffin, in his sermon, recalled that Archbishop Beran was arrested three years ago, yet his Communist gaolers had never dared put him on trial. "They may label him a ‘Fascist reactionary’ and an enemy of the people’ yet they cannot destroy the truth. "They cannot deny that because he refused to submit to Fascist pressure he was arrested by the Gestapo in June, 1942, and endured nearly three years in Dachau and other concentration gamps.” Cardinal Griffin announced that he had appointed Passioh Sunday, April 4, as a special day of prayer for Roman Catholic victims of persecution throughout the world.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27306, 24 March 1954, Page 6
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