A Cardinal is arrested for treason against a communist state. As a Prince of the Catholic Church, he’s a popular hero of this people for his resistance against the Nazis during World War II, and now his resistance after his country again fell to another totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to get a confession of guilt from the strong-willed man, and thus destroy his power over his people. The verbal and psychological battles are gripping and powerful, not even the increasing pressures put upon the Cardinal can force him to weaken, no even solitary confinement, continuous blazing light in his cell, sleeplessness, efforts to persuade him he is going mad. and yet, in the deepening conflict the superbly indomitable prisoner creates a tremendous pity on his tormentor.
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Cardinal Mindszenty not only endured daily beatings and sleep deprivation, but was threatened with having his mother brought in to witness him being chased naked around his cell and beaten...
And for his loyalty, he had to flee to the American embassy after the failed revolution, and after 15yrs confined there, was forced from his primacy by the Pope, and replaced with someone more to the regime's liking by the diplomacy seeking Vatican, and spent the last 4yrs of his life in exile. A preview of China and Francis.
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