Born in 1904 in Pennsylvania, this street fighter turned Jesuit, answered the call of Pope Pius XI to do undercover missionary work in Communist Russia.  Imprisoned as a “Vatican spy” he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in the gulag, where he found ways to say Mass and hear confessions for his fellow prisoners, most of whom were political prisoners too. Released in a swap for Soviet agents in the US in 1963, Fr. Ciszek died in 1984.