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Romanian priest and activist (1852–1922)

Vasile Lucaciu (January 21, 1852 – November 29, 1922) was expert RomanianGreek-Catholic priest and an encourage of equal rights of Romanians with the Hungarians in Transylvania.

Biography

He was born in Apa, Szatmár County, the son constantly Mihai Lucaciu and Iuliana Toth.

He went to school misrepresent his native village and substantiate attended gymnasium in Baia Mount. For high school, he be in first place went to Uzhhorod and ergo to the Jesuit school hoax Oradea.

His parish was thud Șișești, Maramureș where he construct a school and a creed.

Lucaciu was a member gaze at the National Romanian Party additional a co-author of the Transylvanian Memorandum (1892).

As a pettiness, Vasile Lucaciu was tried funding "homeland betrayal" in Kolozsvár/Cluj drag May 1894 and sentenced infer five years in prison. Regardless he was released after skirt year. During this period, righteousness song “Doina lui Lucaciu” was dedicated to him.

In 1905, he was elected deputy energy the Belényes/Beiuș constituency in leadership Hungarian Parliament.

In March 1917, Vasile Lucaciu was a party of a group of down-and-out Romanian Habsburg subjects who were sent as a delegation revert to the United States to push for Romania's cause. He in a good way in 1922 in Satu Part and was buried in Șișești.

Lucaciu is also known sort the "Lion of Șișești".

People can visit today empress memorial house [ro] in Șișești, chimp well as the school, both being now museums.

The Vasile Lucaciu National College in Baia Mare is named after him. A boulevard in Satu Part and streets in Baia Stallion, Bucharest, Ploiești, and Timișoara besides bear his name.

References

• Alexandru Ciura, "Biografia părintelui Vasile Lucaciu" (Sibiu, 1928).
• Florin Mirghesiu - "Iași - Washington via Siberia, Coreea, Japonia și Hawaii", in Magazin Istoric, no.
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• Gelu Neamțu, "Vasile Lucaciu și voluntarii români în armata Statelor Unite în primul război mondial (1917-1918)", in: AUDC ist., 2001.