My whole life has been based on two principles: the love of the Church to which I am united, and the love of my country, which I adore. If I do not care whether I am sentenced to ten years imprisonment or to be shot, it is not because I am a fanatic... Since I joined the Catholic Church my sole object has been to reconcile my country to that Church which I believe to be the One True Church.

Captain Francis McCullagh, "The Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity," page 238. Addressing the court shortly before being sentenced to ten years in the GULAG.