His friends describe him as a 'man of contradictions': Father Picx wished to have a long life but did not think of his personal safety when he exposed the extrajudicial killings of the Davao Death Squad
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To his friends, Father Christopher Romeo Obach and Brother Karl Gaspar, Father Picx was a lover of music and the arts, a poet, a shy and polite individual, and a man filled with courage and compassion for the poor. He also loved mountain climbing and hiking. He climbed Mount Apo seven times and in 2010, he walked the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage trail in Europe, barefoot to honor Christ.
Picardal was arrested, tortured, and imprisoned for nearly seven months, from September 21, 1973 to April 15, 1974. , the book of veteran Cebuano lawyer Democrito Barcenas, Father Picx shared how he was beaten up multiple times by state intelligence officers, how he was threatened with a gun cocked in his mouth, and pushed to the edge of starvation.with a clenched fist with the number “1081”, a grim reminder of Proclamation 1081 that ushered in Martial Law in the country.
If I confess to them everything and betray those Who oppose this dictatorial regime. How much longer, do I have to suffer? How much longer can I hold on? “Beyond the contradictions, there has been no dualism in your life. was a person of integrity with the core of his being fully-formed…. This was his gift to his family, to us, your brothers in the brotherhood and friends,” Gaspar said in a ceremony to pay tribute to the priest on Wednesday, June 5.
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