Pietro Leoni

Pietro Leoni

Pietro Leoni (1909-1995) was a Jesuit preist from the Italy who later worked in the Soviet Union. [Golovanov, Sergey. [http://vselenstvo.narod.ru/library/histdest.htm "THE HISTORICAL DESTINY OF THE RUSSIAN CATHOLIC TRADITION OF THE BYZANTINE RITE 1917 – 1991".] ] He was born in Italy and educated by the Vatican in their training center for priests bound for the Soviet Untion. In 1941 Leoni went along with an Italian regiment aiding the Nazis in their invasion of the USSR. In 1943 he was released from service as the Italian army disintegrated and he decided to stay on as civil priest in Odessa. [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,861543-1,00.html "Mission in the Night"] ] On April 29, 1945 he was arrested for counter-revolutionary activity for which was sentenced to 25 years in forced labor camps but was released in 1955 through intervention of the Vatican. [Elena Dundovich, Francesca Gori, and Emanuela Guercetti (2003). "Reflections on the Gulag: With a Documentary Index on the Italian Victims of Repression in the USSR". Feltrinelli Editore. ISBN 9788807990588. ]

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