Tag: faith under persecution

“It was as if I were living in a fairy tale. And the most wonderful part was that I knew—hard as it may be to believe—that the story was true. None of the hardships of imprisonment touched me. The fear of the unknown no longer unsettled me, nor did the fact that, three days after my arrest, no one had yet called me in for interrogation. I knew it would come, but I waited for it without the slightest fear.” —Nicole Valèry Grossu