page_title: Vasile Lucaciu
hierarchical_section_title: Vasile Lucaciu
caption_attribution_description: English: Bust of Vasile Lucaciu, Baia Mare, Romania. Inscription reads: "Romanian priest and politician. One of the leaders of the national liberation struggle of Transylvania's Romanians".
context_page_description: Vasile Lucaciu was a Romanian Greek-Catholic priest and an advocate of equal rights of Romanians with the Hungarians in Transylvania.
  HIs parish was in Sisesti Maramures where he bilt a school and a church
  He is also known as "Lion of Sisesti"
  People can visit today his humble house in Sisestias well as the school both being now museums
  He was a member of the National Romanian Party and a co-author of the Transylvanian Memorandum. As a consequence, Vasile Lucaciu was tried for "homeland betrayal" in Kolozsvár/Cluj in May 1894 and sentenced to five years in prison. However he was released after one year.
  In 1905 he was elected deputy for the Belényes/Beiuş constituency in the Hungarian Parliament.
  In March 1917, Vasile Lucaciu was a member of a group of exiled Romanian Habsburg subjects who were sent as a delegation to the United States to campaign for Romania's cause.
context_section_description: Vasile Lucaciu (January 21, 1852 in Apa, Szatmár – November 29, 1922 in Satu Mare) was a Romanian Greek-Catholic priest and an advocate of equal rights of Romanians with the Hungarians in Transylvania.
  HIs parish was in Sisesti Maramures where he bilt a school and a church
  He is also known as "Lion of Sisesti"
  People can visit today his humble house in  Sisestias well as the school both being now museums
  He was a member of the National Romanian Party and a co-author of the Transylvanian Memorandum (1892). As a consequence, Vasile Lucaciu was tried for "homeland betrayal" in Kolozsvár/Cluj in May 1894 and sentenced to five years in prison. However he was released after one year.
  In 1905 he was elected deputy for the Belényes/Beiuş constituency in the Hungarian Parliament.
  In March 1917, Vasile Lucaciu was a member of a group of exiled Romanian Habsburg subjects who were sent as a delegation to the United States to campaign for Romania's cause.
caption: Bust in Baia Mare
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