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Basilian sisters held a three-day underground spiritual retreat in a two-room Romanian apartment in May 1988, a year before Romania's communist regime was overthrown. Sr. Ioana Bota, center, was provincial superior at the time. She dressed in a habit, in secret, only twice in the 18 years of the underground church. (Courtesy of Sisters of St. Basil the Great)

Basilian sisters held a three-day underground spiritual retreat in a two-room Romanian apartment in May 1988, a year before the communist regime was overthrown. Sr. Ioana Bota, center, was provincial superior.