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Text transcribed from caption: C-31308 FORMER CHAPLAIN IN MOSCOW DEAD AT 62
WORCESTER, Mass. -- Father Leopold Braun, A.A., who spent 12 years as
chaplain to American Roman Catholics in Moscow, died in St. Vincent’s
Hospital, Worcester, Mass., at the age of 62. The Assumptionist was the first
American priest to go to Moscow under the 1933 Roosevelt-Litvincoff
Agreement, providing for U.S. recognition of Soviet Russia. Under the
agreement’s religious protocol, Russia consented to let a clergyman go to
Moscow to administer to the spiritual needs of employees in the American
embassy. Father Braun served in Moscow from early 1934 until late 1945. After
he returned to this country he lectured and wrote as an outspoken critic of
the Soviet regime. He helped found the Assumptionist Research and Missionary
Institute in New York and was its director until last year. Photo shows
Father Braun as he testified in 1952 before a special House of
Representatives subcommittee in Washington, D.C., which was investigating the
massacre of some 10,000 Polish officers in the Katyn Forest in Russia. Credit
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Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Braun, Leopold--Death and burial., Catholic Church--Clergy.
Topics:
Clergy--Russia--Moscow., Communism and Christianity--Catholic Church., Communism and Christianity--Soviet Union., Communist countries--Foreign relations--United States.