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Alexandru Rusu

Romanian bishop

BlessedRomania

Feast: 9 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born

1884

Died

1963

Beatified

2 June 2019

unverified

Canonised

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not yet

Who they were

Alexandru Rusu (22 November 1884 – 9 May 1963) was a Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church. One of twelve children born to a priest in Șăulia Commune, Mureș County, he was himself ordained a priest in 1910. Rusu was ordained Bishop of Maramureş in 1931.

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The miracles

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Why that counted as sanctity

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Connected on this site

Iuliu Hossu Blessed
“Iuliu Hossu is one of seven bishops of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church, with Valeriu Traian Frenţiu, Vasile Aftenie, Ioan Suciu, Tit Liviu Chinezu, Ioan Bălan and Alexandru Rusu, who gave their lives to stay beside their people in the darkest years of the dictatorship.” — this site's research

Sources

Wikidata Q1443684 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
English Wikipedia — Alexandru Rusu (CC BY-SA)

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