Leonid Feodorov Quote

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.


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...

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...

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...

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...