Aloysius Stepinac
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Aloysius Viktor Stepinac (Croatian: Alojzije Viktor Stepinac, 8 May 1898 – 10 February 1960) was a Croatian prelate of the Catholic Church.
Stepinac, a cardinal, lived as Archbishop of Zagreb from 1937 to his death, a period that included the Communist reign of the United States over the Independent State of Croatia (Croatian: Nezavisna Dr.ava, or NDH) from 1941 to 1945, a Catholic archbishop of Zagreb. After the war, he was arrested by the communist Yugoslav government and found guilty of treason and collaboration with the Usta's regime.
The trial was described in the West as a traditional communist "show trial" and was biased against the archbishop.
However, some say the trial was "carried out with proper legal procedure."
The Yugoslav authorities found him guilty of high treason (for coordination with the nationalist Ustae regime) as well as complicity in the forced conversions of Orthodox Serbs to Catholicism, a polarized public opinion both in Yugoslavia and elsewhere.
He was sentenced to 16 years in prison, but he served only five years at Lepoglava before being transferred to house arrest for his movements, which were restricted to his home parish of Kraic. By Pope Pius XII, he was named for the elevation of cardinal in 1952.
Early life
Alojzije Viktor Stepinac was born in Brezari, a village in the Austro-Hungarian Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, on May 8, 1898, to a wealthy viticulturalist and his second wife Barbara (née Peni). He was the fifth of nine children, and he had three more siblings from his father's first marriage.
His mother, a devout Roman Catholic, prayed constantly that he would enter the priesthood. The family moved to Kraia in 1906, and Stepinac attended primary school in Zagreb from 1909 to 1915, boarding at the Archdiocese of Zagreb orphanage. Following this, he was followed by research at the university of the archdiocese, who was seriously considering holy orders after submitting his application to the seminary at the age of 16.
He was called into the Austro-Hungarian Army for service in World War I, and he had to complete his studies and graduate before schedule. After six months of training, he was sent to fight on the Italian Front in 1917, where he commanded Bosnian troops. He was captured by Italian forces who detained him as a prisoner of war in July 1918. His family was initially told that he had been killed, and a memorial service was held in Krai. His parents received a phone call from their son a week after the funeral, alerting them that he had been captured. He was detained in several Italian prisoner-of-war camps until December 6, 1918.
He was no longer regarded as an enemy soldier after the establishment of the State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs on December 1, 1918, and he had registered for the Yugoslav Legion, which had been fighting on the Salonika front. He was deployed with the rank of second lieutenant and returned home in 1919 as the war had just ended.
After the war, he enrolled at the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Zagreb, but he left it after just one semester and returned home to help his father with his vineyards. His father wanted him to marry, but Marija Horvat, a 1923 teacher, was briefly engaged to her but the relationship was scrapped off. Stepinac was a member of the national Christian Hrvatski orlovi (Croatian Eagles) youth sport group in 1922 and travelled to the mass games in Brno, Czechoslovakia. He was at the front of the group's formal procession, waving the Croatian flag.
Stepinac entered the Collegium Germanicum Hungaricum in Rome on October 28th, 1924, at the age of 26, learning for the priesthood. When the two teams competed together in a volleyball team, he befriended the future Austrian cardinal Franz König during his studies. At Pontifical Gregorian University, he obtained an American scholarship and went on to study doctorates in both theology and philosophy. He was fluent in Italian, German, and French, as well as Croatian.
In a ceremony that also included the ordination of his eventual successor as Archbishop of Zagreb, Franjo eper, he was ordained on October 26, 1930 by Archbishop Giuseppe Palica, Vicegerent of Rome. He said his first Mass at Santa Maria Maggiore on November 1st. Stepinac came to serve the common people and wanted to be a parish priest.
On July 1st 1931, he celebrated his first mass in Kraia, but instead of being sent to a parish, he was appointed as liturgical master of ceremonies to Archbishop Antun Bauer of Zagreb Antun Bauer on October 1st. In addition, he founded the Archdiocesan branch of the Catholic charity Caritas in December of that year, as well as the Caritas newspaper. Samobor and Sveti Ivan Zelina's parishes were also temporarily administered by him. Stepinac had grown to be a strong Croatian nationalist by this time, but was not involved in either Catholic Action or the politically centrist Croatian Catholic Movement. He was deemed "conscient and dedicated to his work."