New Cathedral of Fatima Put in Place of Soviet Gulag Concentration Camps, Place of Martyrs

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The Soviet regime put countless Christian laypeople, priests and bishops, in a network of camps in an area the size of France, where many were worked to death or died of starvation, the cold or were executed. Three of the priests who died there are in process of being canonized. This cathedral is dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima, who asked for prayer for the conversion of Russia. The bishop responsible for this new cathedral said “it is a place of prayer and expiation for the countless crimes perpetrated by a totalitarian and godless regime” there “against Jesus Christ and against human dignity.”
see www.zenit.org/article-35159?l=english

Another article on this is at rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-cathedral-of-our-lady-of-fatima-in.html

 

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Praise God!

In a pastoral letter in April, the bishops of Kazakhstan wrote of the history of the cathedral and the diocese, explaining that during the Soviet era, the city of Karaganda and the surrounding region, "earned for itself hideous notoriety as being a place of repression and banishment for anyone and everyone, of whatever nationality, ethnic group or religious denomination, who dared to challenge atheistic materialism…

And thanks to His holy Church!