ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 20th of December WELCOME! BLESSED ANTON DURCOVICI, BISHOP AND MARTYR Blessed Anton Durcovici was born on May 17, 1888 in Bad Deutsch Altenburg, Austria. In 1895 Blessed Anton’s family moved to the Romanian Kingdom and he completed his studies in Lasi and in Bucharest. In 1906 Blessed Anton joined the Catholic Seminary, finishing his priestly studies in Rome. Being ordained a priest in 1910, Blessed Anton returned to Romania where he first worked as a schoolteacher in the Bucharest Seminary and then as the parish administrator in Tulcea. HE WAS CONSECRATED BISHOP OF LASI After Romania entered World War I, Blessed Anton was sent to an internment camp, being an Austrian citizen, until freed under the orders of King Ferdinand I. Blessed Anton then became rector of the Bucharest Seminary and held this office until 1948, when he was consecrated as the Bishop of Lasi. PLACED UNDER SURVEILLANCE As a Catholic Bishop he became an e...