Peter Novák: Ján Havlík Just Wanted to Be a Priest. The Communists Tortured Him to Death for It. Today He Is Beatified

For the Eštěbák, anyone they broke, who confessed and promised not to do anything like that again was a trophy. But Ján Havlík refused and they did not break him; on the contrary, he was a missionary even to his fellow prisoners, claims Peter Novák, who describes the story of a young Slovak who was tortured by the communists and whom Pope Francis honored by signing a decree on martyrdom.