" We need figures that teach us steadfastness, fidelity, and proper principles, that teach us to be firm in our postion,” he said, noting that each of the venerable bishops could have been released from prison had they abandoned the Church and become Orthodox under the regime’s “Church unification” plan.
He said they also teach people to “accept the will of God in every situation,” even intense persecution, which is important because “in the end, every one of us will have our place, our time in which we will have to give witness to our values.”
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