Hidden in Plain Faith: The Polish Orthodox Clergy Who Defied Communist Book Burners — and the American Scholars Recovering Their Legacy
During the darkest decades of Soviet occupation, a handful of courageous Polish Orthodox priests risked imprisonment — and worse — to conceal theological manuscripts, liturgical texts, and devotional collections from Communist authorities determined to erase religious memory. Their clandestine libraries survived. Now, their descendants in America are working to ensure those salvaged volumes speak again.