That is their great positive value. Such are God's mysteries to put the human wisdom to shame. Persecutors are people who have given in to the temptation of the devil but we must not believe that persecution only depends on them. It does not occur without God's permission. If God because of wisdom keeps the future closed to us, it does not mean by any account that it is decided by people for they are and will remain no more than pawns, moved on the chessboard of the world by God's hand where and how He pleases, to brush them off when they have played their role.
Many contemporary persecutors are miserable men, seduced by an ideology that is false.
It would be wrong, of course, to infer from this that I bear ill will to any of those ideologists or their seduced followers. They are also, while on earth, children of our heavenly Father for whom too Christ had died, and I wish wholeheartedly for all of them across the world to find a path to the truth. That is the reality we might call miraculous. If a persecuted man prays, he saves the world and himself but, on the other hand, also feels that prayers of many others also sustain him.