“With God in Russia” !

The Father Walter Ciszek Time Line

1904 Born in Shenandoah, PA

1929 Pope Pius XI assigns to the Jesuits the “Russian Mission”

1937 Father Ciszek is ordained in Rome in the Byzantine Rite of Russian usage

1940 Entered the Soviet Union from eastern Poland

1941 Arrest by the NKVD security services

1947 Declared “deceased” by religious superiors in Rome

1963 During Vatican II, Father Ciszek was released from the Soviet Union

1963 Debriefed by the United States Government

1965-1966
Period of his most intense speaking tours around North America

1979 Hospitalized

1984 Died on December 8 in the Bronx at the John XXIII Center for Eastern Christian Studies on Belmont Avenue near Fordham University

1993 The ecumenical document referred to as “Balamand” is signed between the Catholic Church and various Orthodox churches, including the Moscow Patriarchate

1997 Ongoing conflicts unresolved by “Balamand”. See http://www.russian-orthodox-church.org.ru/ve110771.htm