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I can't really say if it was a true story or not. If I were to guess, I would say it was probably inspired by some event or other. It does remind me of the much more well-known novel, "Shoes of the Fisherman" by Morris West, another page-turner that became a blockbuster starring Anthony Quinn. He played Kiril Lakota, a Russian cardinal exiled by the communists to Siberia who is suddenly freed and flown to Rome, where, upon the Pope's death, the conclave elects him as Pope Kiril I. At the time the book was published, there really was a cardinal who fit the description of the exiled Kiril Lakota to a "t": Iosef Cardinal Slipji. The amazing thing, though, is just how prescient that novel was: not long after it was published,
he was indeed released in almost exactly the same manner as the character, Cyril Lakota!
Remember that, during the communist reign throughout Eastern Europe -- especially in Russia and [the] Ukraine, where "The Jesuit" takes place -- there were numerous clandestinely ordained priests and even bishops ministering in secret to the flock. Most of these were Byzantine [Ukrainian or Russian] Rite Catholics -- akin in Liturgy and Tradition to the Eastern Orthodox -- just as is the protagonist in this marvelous story.
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