In Belarus, a Catholic priest was sentenced to 11 years for "treason":

On December 30, the Minsk Regional Court issued a verdict in the case of the rector of the Catholic parish in Volozhin, priest Genrikh Okolotovich. The 64-year-old rector, who has serious illnesses, was sentenced to 11 years in a maximum security penal on charges of "treason". Believers also learned that neither the metropolitan, nor other bishops, nor priests, nor the secretary of the Apostolic Nunciature came to the verdict: "The fear is greater than in the 1930s. Then, there was probably more solidarity."

After his arrest, he spent more than a year in the KGB pretrial detention center. During all this time, no information about the case has appeared. What exactly the priest is accused of remains unknown even now - the trial was held behind closed doors.

St. Stepinac and St Josaphat intercede on behalf of the faithful in Belarus.

When pressed to convert to Orthodoxy where he'd be made Patriach Of București, Blessed Bishop Aftenie replied, "Neither my faith nor my nation are for sale."

He was later mutilated, crippled and tortured, eventually to death by the Romanian communists.

An Orthodox funeral mass in a Lebanese village in honor of Joseph Stalin, 1953

For Avvakum Petrov, Constantinople fell because they united themselves to the renegades. This is literally the opposite thesis of Bellarmine.

again: Deign to listen to me, join the ecumenicals, more or less." And I said: "Let me die, if it pleases God, I will not unite with renegades! You are my tsar, but what have they to do with you? They have lost their own tsar 4, and it is to devour you too that they have come here. I will not lower my arms raised to heaven until God has returned you to me. >>> There were many of these messages 5. There was talk of this and that. The last word was: Wherever you are, do not forget us in your prayers! "Today still, a sinner, as long as I can, I pray to God for him.

“My most burning desire, my prayer, is one day to share the consecrated Chalice with the Pope.”

- His All-Holiness Patriarch Athenagoras

Romanian Eastern Orthodox fresco depicts St Francis with a halo behind him. Jesuit infiltrators win again!

Orthos: "we have always been persecuted and oppressed by communist regimes"

Orthos the moment some dictator realizes he can use their statolatry to his advantage and starts wooing them:

P.S: don't ask them who gave them the churches seized from us in Poland and Ukraine.

The Holy Fathers reckoned that the pagan world was not excluded by the design of God from the circle of divine care. Although not having supernatural Revelation, the pagan world was not deprived of *natural revelation*. With the correct use of the natural abilities of his spirit, man can have definite knowledge of God, of the world, and of himself. In addition, having an innate idea of God in his mind and an inborn knowledge of the Divine Will in his conscience, man was capable of realizing the limits of his knowledge and, by a spiritual renunciation, was capable of looking for aid from above. However, paganism did not utilize all the possibilities of *natural religious development*. Pagan religion could have been considerably higher and purer than it was in fact.

Therefore, the Apostle Paul regards as answerable before the countenance of divine truth not only the Hebrews, who had the law given through supernatural revelation, but also the pagans, who, while not having the same revelation, were not left without *natural means of knowing God*.

Revelation was accomplished gradually. The Lord did not reveal Himself and His will at once. In the beginning, through miraculous and wonderful phenomena of nature and its laws, He gave the so-called *natural revelation*. Then He gave the supernatural revelation by means of spiritual prophets and through miraculous events in man's history, and, finally, He gave the full Revelation of good tidings in the Son, the God-Man, Christ.

— Ivan M. Andreyev, Orthodox Apologetic Theology

old ROCOR and Catacomb Church writer admits natural theology/revelation