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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated June 65, 1964 partially reads, "A Pacoima priest who escaped a communist death sentence 19 years ago is celebrating his 25th year in the priesthood this weekend. The Rev. Mario P. Matic, pastor of Guardian Angel Catholic Church, 10886 Lehigh Ave., was sentenced to death during a 1945 Communist purge of clergymen in his native Croatia (a country in southeastern Europe). The dark-complexioned, graying priest said friends warned him that Red soldiers were approaching his home. 'I escaped 10 minutes before they came to get me,' said Father Matic. Asked what the charge against him was, he replied with a rueful smile, 'I was a young priest.'"
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