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Memorandistul Vasile Lucaciu” [Fighting on Two Fronts.
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Vasile Lucaciu
Romanian priest and activist (–)
Vasile Lucaciu (January 21, – November 29, ) was a RomanianGreek-Catholic priest and an advocate of equal rights of Romanians with the Hungarians in Transylvania.
Biography
He was born in Apa, Szatmár County, the son of Mihai Lucaciu and Iuliana Toth. He went to school in his native village and then attended gymnasium in Baia Mare. For high school, he first went to Uzhhorod and then to the Jesuit school in Oradea.
Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian literary critic.His parish was in Șișești, Maramureș where he built a school and a church.
Lucaciu was a member of the National Romanian Party and a co-author of the Transylvanian Memorandum (). As a consequence, Vasile Lucaciu was tried for "homeland betrayal" in Kolozsvár/Cluj in May and sentenced to five years in prison.
However he was released after one year. During this period, the song “Doina lui Lucaciu” was dedicated to him.
In , he was elected deputy for the Belényes/Beiuș constituency in the Hungarian Parliam