Statuia lui vasile lucaciu din satu mare

Vasile Lucaciu (January 21, 1852 – November 29, 1922) was a

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priest and an advocate of equal rights of Romanians with the

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Biogeaphy

He was born in Apa,

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, the son of Mihai Lucaciu and Iuliana Toth. He went to school in his native village and then attended gymnasium in

Baia Mare Baia Mare ( , ; hu, Nagybánya; german: Frauenbach or Groß-Neustadt; la, Rivulus Dominarum) is a municipality along the Săsar River, in northwestern Romania; it is the capital of Maramureș County. The city lies in the region of Maramureș ...

. For high school, he first went to

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and then to the

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. His parish was in Șișești,

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where he built a school and a church. Lucaciu was a member of the

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and a co-author of the ''

Transylvanian Memorandum The ''Transylvanian Memorandum'' ( ro, Memorandumul Transilvaniei) was a petition sent in 1892 by the leaders of the Romanians of Transylvania to the Austro-Hungarian Emperor-King Franz Joseph, asking for equal ethnic rights with the Hungarians, ...

'' (1892). As a consequence, Vasile Lucaciu was tried for " homeland betrayal" in Kolozsvár/Cluj in May 1894 and sentenced to five years in prison. However he was released after one year. In 1905, he was elected deputy for the Belényes/Beiuș constituency in the Hungarian Parliament. In March 1917, Vasile Lucaciu was a member of a group of exiled Romanian Habsburg subjects who were sent as a delegation to the United States to campaign for Romania's cause. He died in 1922 in

Satu Mare Satu Mare (; hu, Szatmárnémeti ; german: Sathmar; yi, סאטמאר or ) is a city with a population of 102,400 (2011). It is the capital of Satu Mare County, Romania, as well as the centre of the Satu Mare metropolitan area. It lies in the ...

and was buried in Șișești. Lucaciu is also known as the "Lion of Șișești". People can visit today his in Șișești, as well as the school, both being now museums. The

Vasile Lucaciu National College Vasile Lucaciu National College ( ro, Colegiul Naţional Vasile Lucaciu) is a public day school for students aged 10 to 19, established in 1962 and located in Baia Mare, Romania. The college is named after Vasile Lucaciu, a Greek Catholic priest ...

in Baia Mare is named after him. A boulevard in Satu Mare and streets in Baia Mare,

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, and

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also bear his name.

References

* Alexandru Ciura, "Biografia părintelui Vasile Lucaciu" (Sibiu, 1928). * Florin Mirghesiu - "Iași - Washington via Siberia, Coreea, Japonia și Hawaii", in ''

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'', no. 12, December 2004. * Gelu Neamțu, "Vasile Lucaciu și voluntarii români în armata Statelor Unite în primul război mondial (1917-1918)", in: AUDC ist., 2001. 1852 births 1922 deaths People from Satu Mare County Ethnic Romanian politicians in Transylvania Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) Prisoners and detainees of Austria-Hungary Romanian Greek-Catholic priests Romanian prisoners and detainees {{Romania-politician-stub