Visarion Toța was born to pious parents in 1714, in the village of Măgureni. From a young age, he felt drawn to monastic life. Visarion became a monk at the Holy Trinity Skete. He was arrested for defending the Orthodox faith against the pressure of the Habsburg Empire to convert to Catholicism. Imprisoned and tortured in Timișoara, he refused to renounce Orthodoxy and was eventually strangled in 1744 or 1752. O, #VenerableVisarion, pray to #God for us!
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