site.btaNovember 11, 1952: Communist Authorities Execute Bishop Evgeni Bosilkov and Three Other Catholic Clergymen after Espionage Trial
Bishop Evgeni Bosilkov during his spying trial in the Sofia Palace of Justice, September 29, 1952 (BTA Archive/Racho Stoyanov)
On November 11, 1952, a firing squad executed the Catholic Bishop Evgeni Bosilkov and three other clergymen after a court found them guilty of spying.
Bosilkov was born to a family of Bulgarian Latin Rite Catholics on November 16, 1900, in Belene,
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